Judgment No. CCZ 3/2015 1 Criminal Appeal No. CCZ 227/11 REPORTABLE (10) DISTRIBUTED BY VERITAS email: veritas@mango.zw website: www.veritaszim.net Veritas makes every effort to ensure the provision of reliable information, but cannot take legal responsibility for information supplied BERNARD MANYARA v THE STATE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF ZIMBABWE CHIDYAUSIKU CJ, MALABA DCJ, ZIYAMBI JA, GWAUNZA JA, GARWE JA, GOWORA JA, HLATSHWAYO JA, PATEL JA & GUVAVA JA HARARE, FEBRUARY 19, 2014 & MARCH 9, 2015 J. Mambara, for the applicant S. Fero, for the respondent PATEL JA: The applicant in this matter seeks a permanent stay of prosecution in respect of a charge that arose more than 8 years ago. He claims that his right to a fair trial within a reasonable time, as enshrined in s 18(2) of the former Constitution, has been violated. The applicant was arrested in November 2005 on a charge of converting to his own use a sum of ZW$760,000,000.00 that was given to him by the complainant to purchase 30,000 litres of diesel and 8,000 litres of petrol. According to the submissions