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HMA 36-18
HC 263/18
AMALGAMATED RURAL TEACHERS UNION OF ZIMBABWE
and
OBERT MASARAURE
versus
ZIMBABWE AFRICAN NATIONAL UNION [PATRIOTIC FRONT]
and
MINISTER OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
HIGH COURT OF ZIMBABWE
MAFUSIREJ
HARARE, 25 & 28 June 2018
Urgent chamber application
Mr D. Co/tart, for the applicants
Mr N. Mushangwe, for the first respondent
Mr T. Undenge, for the second respondent
MAFUSIREJ
[1]
The first respondent is the ruling patty in Zimbabwe. The second respondent is a
minister of government in charge of primary and secondary education. He is a member
of the first respondent. The matter before me was an urgent chamber application by the
applicants for an interdict against the respondents. The first applicant is a trade union
of primary and secondary school teachers in rural Zimbabwe. It is duly registered. It
has corporat>' personality, capable of suing and being sued in its own name. The second
applicant is a teacher. He is the current president of the first applicant. The interdict was
sought to restrain the respondents from certain activities that the applicants considered
harmful to themselves and the school children under their care. These activities
included:
•
coercing school children to attend and participate in political rallies or other activities
of the first respondent;
•
causing the closure of schools to accommodate the first respondent's political activities;
•
compelling teachers to attend the first respondent's political rallies;
•
compelling teachers to wear the first respondent's patty regalia, and to prepare
performances for school children to deliver at its rallies;