DISTRIBUTED BY VERITAS TRUST Tel: [263] [4] 794478 Fax & Messages [263] [4] 793592 E-mail: veritas@mango.zw Veritas makes every effort to ensure the provision of reliable information, but cannot take legal responsibility for information supplied. Collaborative Research Programme in Women’s Health v Shamuyarira 2010 ZLR Judgment No. SC(1) 31/18 Civil Appeal No. SC 553/13 127(S), 131 B-C. Unfair dismissal, as defined, had not, therefore, been proved. DISPOSITION [30] I am satisfied that both the arbitrator and the court a quo were wrong in finding that the respondent was unlawfully dismissed. The appeal must therefore succeed with costs. [31] It is accordingly ordered as follows: 1. The appeal succeeds with costs. 2. The judgment of the court a quo is set aside and in its place the following substituted:“1. 2. The appeal is allowed with costs. The award by the arbitrator is set aside and in its place, the following is substituted: “The claim is dismissed with costs.” HLATSHWAYO JA: I agree MAVANGIRA JA: (Indisposed) Scanlen & Holderness, appellant’s legal practitioners Coghlan, Welsh & Guest, respondent’s legal practitioners 13

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