THE BENCH CHANGES HANDS… AGAIN. ⚖️👩🏾⚖️ After years at the helm, Luke Malaba exits the stage robe folded, judgments archived, and WhatsApp legal analysts suddenly pretending they have always understood constitutional law. Enter the new Chief Justice, Elizabeth Gwaunza. Zimbabweans are now doing what Zimbabweans do best:forming legal opinions without reading a single judgment. One […]
The Government of Zimbabwe is mounting pressure on informal retailers popularly known as tuckshops to formalize their operations so as to enhance Government tax revenues, economic stabilization and growth. Formal businesses are enduring unfair competition from informal businesses and as a result their survival is at stake and some are shutting down operations. The move […]
Section 27 of the Deeds Registries Act (Chapter 20:05) (the “Act”) governs sectional titles. Only urban land is covered by this section. It was developed to address shortcomings of the block share system. A landowner can register a notarial deed against the title deed to the land under Section 27 of the Act to transfer […]