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HB74-10 : REBECCA SIZIBA vs BAMSLOVE INVESTMENTS (PVT) LTD and MARTIN SIMMONS and REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES
Ruled By: MATHONSI J

The applicant and the second respondent have been fighting for control of the first respondent company for a number of years. All in all seven applications have been filed by either of them in this Court. This culminated in an order granted by consent on the 17th May 2007 in terms of which the ...
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HB74-10 : REBECCA SIZIBA vs BAMSLOVE INVESTMENTS (PVT) LTD and MARTIN SIMMONS and REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES
Ruled By: MATHONSI J

A company is required, by law, to maintain proper books of account in respect of all sums of money received and expended by the company and where no books exist as to give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs and explaining all transactions, this is a serious violation ...
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HH621-15 : DELTA CORPORATION LTD vs ZIMABWE REVENUE AUTHORITY
Ruled By: HLATSHWAYO J

At the hearing of this matter I dismissed the appeal with costs and indicated that the reasons would follow. These are they.The facts of this case are largely common cause.On 23 May 1996, a firm of accountants, Messrs Deloitte and Touche (hereinafter “Deloitte and Touche”) wrote the following letter to ...
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HH223-13 : HWANGE COLLIERY CO. LTD and HWANGE COAL GASIFICATION CO. PL vs HWANGE COAL GASIFICATION CO. PL and TENDAI SAVANHU and KINGDOM BANK LTD and STANBIC BANK LTD and GUO FENG and ORS
Ruled By: MAFUSIRE J

There has been ferocious litigation in a space of four months pitting several protagonists. The dispute was convoluted and the issues multi-faceted. At the centre was a company called Hwange Coal Gasification Company (Private) Limited. For ease of reference I shall refer to this company as the Coal Gasification Company. The one protagonist was a Chinese ...
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HB140-16 : ADELE FARQUHAR vs BANKNOTE ENTERPRISES (PVT) LTD t/a BANKABLE REAL ESTATE and RODWELL MBIRIMI and BETTY MBIRIMI
Ruled By: MATHONSI J

The applicant must be regretting tying her retirement, and, indeed, the twilight of her career to an estate agency business that had the second respondent in it. After what may have been an illustrious career as a Commercial Letting Manager of a well-known estate agency in Bulawayo, John Pocock and Company Limited, the applicant decided to resign ...
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HH192-10 : AEPROMM RESOURCES (PVT) LTD vs SAMUEL MAZOWE and PATTERSON TIMBA and STEVENSON TIMBA and MAGGIE DITIMA and TONDESAI KAPONDO
Ruled By: MTSHIYA J

On 20 August 2010, I dismissed this application with costs. The applicant has now placed before me a written request for the full reasons behind my dismissal of its application. The applicant says it needs the reasons because it intends to file an appeal in the Supreme Court urgently.I give ...
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HH66-16 : MEIKLES LIMITED vs ZIMBABWE STOCK EXCHANGE and ALBAN CHIRUME
Ruled By: MAKONI J

The plaintiff (Meikles) issued summons against the two defendants, Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) and Alban Chirume (Chirume) claiming a declaratur and damages in the sum of $50,000,000.The background to the matter is that on 16 February 2013, the defendants suspended the trading of Meikles shares on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.The ...
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SC67-21 : COSSAM CHIANGWA and OTHERS vs APOSTOLIC FAITH MISSION IN ZIMBABWE and OTHERS
Ruled By: MAVANGIRA JA, MAKONI JA and KUDYA AJA

This is an appeal against the entire judgment of the High Court, dated 4 September 2019, in which the court a quo granted a declaratur and consequential relief sought by the respondents against the appellants and dismissed the application for a declaratur sought by the appellants against the respondents.The order ...
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SC144-21 : FARAI MATSIKA and FAIRGOLD INVESTMENTS (PRIVATE) LIMITED vs MOSES CHINGWENA and 38 OTHERS
Ruled By: BHUNU JA

This is an opposed application for condonation of late noting of an appeal and extension of time within which to file a notice of appeal. The applicant brings the application in terms of Rule 43 of the Rules of Court 2018.THE PARTIESThe first applicant is a former employee of the ...
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SC146-21 : THE GARRAT TRUST vs CREATIVE CREDIT (PRIVATE) LIMITED
Ruled By: BHUNU JA

This is an application for condonation of late noting of appeal and extension of time within which to note the appeal in terms of Rule 43 of the Supreme Court Rules 2018.The application is opposed.The matter was argued on 24 November 2020. At the conclusion of argument the parties were ...
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HB44-15 : RAILWAYS ARTISAN UNIONS vs NATIONAL RAILWAYS OF ZIMBABWE and OTHERS
Ruled By: TAKUVA J

Where a quorum should be met in all such meetings, the failure to so comply renders those meetings conducted outside the requirements null and void: see L. Piros Sons v Piros 1993 (2) ZLR 245 (H) and James North Ltd Can v Matrimson 1989 (1) ZLR 322 (HC).
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HH28-16 : FARPIN INVESTMENTS [PVT] LTD vs NETONE CELLULAR [PVT] LTD and JUSTICE L.G. SMITH [RETD] - ARBITRATOR
Ruled By: MAFUSIRE J

What is a share? What rights does it confer to the holder?In Borland's Trustees v Steel Brothers Co Ltd [1901] 1 Ch 279 the plaintiff suggested, that, a share was a sum of money which would be dealt with in a particular manner by what were called, for ...
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HH28-16 : FARPIN INVESTMENTS [PVT] LTD vs NETONE CELLULAR [PVT] LTD and JUSTICE L.G. SMITH [RETD] - ARBITRATOR
Ruled By: MAFUSIRE J

This was an application for the setting aside of an arbitration award.The arbitrator, the second responded herein, was a retired Judge of this court.The basis of the application was that the arbitrator had misconstrued the factual basis of the applicant's claim before him. It was also said, that, the arbitrator's ...
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HMA38-19 : BERRINGTON ZVANYANYA and OTHERS vs ZIMBABWE SUGAR MILLING INDUSTRY WORKERS UNION and OTHERS
Ruled By: MAFUSIRE J

Applicants 1 to 10 (Berrington Zvanyanya, Samuel Jinjika, Nyararai Dembo, Madhuvura Emmanuel, Madzuro Stiriki, Lovemore Muteurwa, Vengai Masungwini, Ngonidzashe Mabina Mudambanuki, Joe Gasva and Masacha Tapiwa) are one faction of a trade union.Respondents 2 to 6 (Godfrey Katerere, Brawl Chikandiwa, Tavanga Vandirai, Lucia Chirilele and Nokhutula Dube) are the other.The ...
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HH510-20 : FRANCIS BERE vs JUDICIAL SERVICE COMMISSION and SIMBI MUBAKO and REKAYI MAPHOSA and TAKAWIRA NZOMBE and VIRGINIA MABHIZA and PRESIDENT OF ZIMBABWE and MINISTER OF JUSTICE, LEGAL & PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS and ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ZIMBABWE
Ruled By: CHIKOWERO J

This is an application for review of the Judicial Service Commission's decision to advise the President that the question of removing the applicant from the office of a judge ought to be investigated.The applicant is a judge of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Zimbabwe. ...
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SC01-22 : FRANCIS BERE vs JUDICIAL SERVICE COMMISSION and SIMBI MUBAKO and REKAYI MAPHOSA and TAKAWIRA NZOMBE and VIRGINIA MABHIZA and PRESIDENT OF ZIMBABWE and MINISTER OF JUSTICE, LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS
Ruled By: GUVAVA JA, UCHENA JA and KUDYA AJA

This is an appeal against the whole judgment of the High Court (court a quo). The suspension from office of the appellant led to a flurry of court applications in the court a quo. This is just one of them in which the court a quo dismissed the appellant's application.The ...
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HH128-06 : DOBROCK HOLDINGS (PVT) LTD and TURNER AND SONS (PVT) LTD vs TURNER AND SONS (PVT) LTD and ANTHONY TURNER and MARTIN KING and ZAMBEZI PADDLE STEAMER (PVT) LTD and DOBROCK (PVT) LTD
Ruled By: KUDYA J

An order for the consolidation of these two matters was granted by UCHENA J, by consent, with no order as to costs, on 2 June 2006, for hearing before me on 7 June 2006 in Case Number 3157/06.The first application, Case No. HC5186/05, concerns an order for specific performance while ...
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