DOUGLAS NYATHI

and

MOREBLESSING MPOFU

and

KARREN DUBE

and

VEZUMUZI NDLOVU

and

DONWELL DUBE

and

SANI BONIFACE MUTALE

and

KEITH PHIRI

and

SITHOKOZILE MAHOPOLO

and

SIBONOKUHLE NDLOVU

versus

LUPANE STATE UNIVERSITY

HIGH COURT OF ZIMBABWE

MATHONSI J

BULAWAYO 6 APRIL 2018, 10 APRIL 2018 AND 12 ARPIL 2018

Urgent Chamber Application

T Ndlovu for the applicants

J J Moyo for the respondent

            MATHONSI J:          When this matter was initially set down for hearing before me on Friday 6 April 2018 Mr Moyo who appeared for the respondents sought a postponement of the hearing to enable the parties, first and foremost, to engage each other with a view to resolving the dispute outside court and secondly to enable the respondent, in the event of non-settlement, to prepare for argument.  The matter was then postponed by consent to 10 April 2018.

            Since then there has been a flurry of correspondence between the parties which was unnecessarily copied to the registrar of this court.  What is significant though is that when counsel for the respondent requested a postponement an undertaking was made that the issues