Judgment No. SC 12/18
Chamber Application No. SC 179/15
UNIVERSITY
(1)
KWANELE
N.
OF ZIMBABWE
v
JIRIRA (2) LOUIS
MASUKO
SUPREME COURT OF ZIMBABWE
BHUNU JA
HARARE, 15 JUNE 2016
R. H. Goba, for the applicant
K. E. Kadzere, for the respondents
IN CHAMBERS
BHUNU JA:
This is a chamber application for leave to appeal against the
judgment of the Labour Court in terms of r 5 (2) of the Supreme Court (Miscellaneous Appeals
and References) Rules, 1975.
The applicant is a tertiary educational institution incorporated as such under the
University of Zimbabwe Act [Chapter 25:16]. Both respondents are its former workers who
were employed as research fellows at its Institute of Development Studies. They were
dismissed from employment by the disciplinary Tribunal on allegations of misconduct. They
are alleged to have wilfully refused to obey a lawful order to be redeployed from the Institute
of Development Studies offices to the University campus.
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