A LOCAL transport operator L Kashaya Plant and Haulage has taken Hwange Colliery Company to the High Court seeking an order compelling the coal miner to pay an outstanding $138 000 for services rendered.
CHARLES LAITON
According to court papers filed by the haulage company under case number HC7259/13, Hwange Colliery Company had failed to pay the debt since 2011.
Hwange Colliery Company has, however, denied the claims arguing it never made any such agreement and challenged the haulage truck firm to prove the matter during trial.
Lovemore Kashaya, the owner of the haulage truck firm said in his summary of evidence, on October 1, 2011 Hwange Colliery gave and offered him a contract for the movement of coal and waste at the Metallurgical Service Department, a processing plant in Hwange.
Kashaya firm’s duties in the alleged contract included hiring out truck load bin and tipper services and also hiring of its front end loader vehicles which were used for the purposes of hauling or moving coke from coke works to the coke reclaim at the Colliery Mine and the vehicles were also used to move waste from and around the processing plant to waste dump sites.
As per the contract allegedly signed by both parties the agreed rates were, $30/$35 per 30 tonne load of coke moved from coke works to coke reclaim.
After carrying out its duties, the haulage truck firm sent invoices to Hwange Colliery amounting to $144 105,78 after fuel costs were deducted.
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Hwange Colliery is alleged to have entered into a payment plan on November 13, 2012 to pay $6 000 weekly every Friday until full payment was made.
But having agreed on the figure, Kashaya Plant and Haulage allegedly waited for payment, but none was forthcoming.
Hwange Colliery is alleged to have made only one payment of $6 000 leaving an outstanding balance of $138 105,78.
The matter is yet to be heard at the High Court.
