TBIC INVESTMENTS (PRIVATE) LTD

and

PAUL ESAU HUPENYU CHIDAWANYIKA

versus

SHERIFF FOR ZIMBABWE

and

KENNEDY GODWIN MANGENJE

HIGH COURT OF ZIMBABWE
TSANGA J
HARARE, 7 June 2018 & 11 July 2018

Urgent Chamber Application

K Kachambwa , for the applicant
E Jera,  for the respondent
 

               TSANGA J: The applicants sought a provisional interdict which I dismissed with costs on a higher scale on 7 June. Reasons for so doing have been requested in writing for purposes of appeal.

The interdict sought was to effectively stop a removal and eviction in terms of a writ of ejectment issued out on 29 May 2018.

Background

              A portion of land situated in Goromonzi district which was inherited by one Cecil Michael Reimer from his father was awarded to the second respondent, Godwin Mangenje in 2006. This was in terms of an offer letter under the land resettlement programme. Under murky circumstances, a portion of that land had been sold by Cecil Reimer to the applicants in 2009 at a time when it had already been acquired by the state for resettlement. When the