Newest first, read from the court's own list the day each is handed down.
| Handed down | Judgment |
|---|---|
| 16 Oct 2026 | Barnard v Gouws[2026] ZASCA 139 · 639/2024 · Prescription Act of 1969 – s 15(1) – interruption of prescription by service of process – onus resting on the party invoking prescription –... |
| 16 Oct 2026 | Discovery Health (Pty) Ltd v Road Accident Fund and Another[2026] ZASCA 140 · 372/2025 · Res judicata – court |
| 16 Oct 2026 | Bouwer v The South African Legal Practice Council[2026] ZASCA 141 · 1050/2024 · Legal Practice – Legal Practice Act of 2014 (the LPA) – locus standi of the provincial structure of the National Legal Practice Council to i... |
| 7 Oct 2026 | Ackerman v Amaning and Another[2026] ZASCA 138 · 744/2024 · Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act of 2004 — whether the appellant’s communications are hate speech under s 1... |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Close Trade 200074 CC t/a Ilcor Engineering Services v Crossmoor Transport (Pty) Ltd[2026] ZASCA 134 · 1553/2024 · Contract – interpretation – payment and security provisions – deposit or guarantee required before commencement of manufacture – payment pro... |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Director of Public Prosecutions, Gauteng Division v Matsepe & Another[2026] ZASCA 135 · 092/2025 · Criminal Procedure – Criminal Procedure Act of 1977 (CPA) – separation of trials in terms of s 157 – application for leave to appeal dismiss... |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Habib Overseas Bank Limited (in liquidation) v Crestar Printers and Publishers (Pty) Ltd (in liquidation) and Others[2026] ZASCA 136 · 058/2025 · Insolvency – suretyship – set-off raised as defence by sureties (banking customers) against an insolvent bank – delay in raising defence of... |
| 5 Oct 2026 | FJ Senekal Inc v The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and Others[2026] ZASCA 137 · 167/2025 · Insolvency – Insolvency Act of 1936 – s 63(2) – remuneration out of the estate for services rendered by a firm of which the trustee was a di... |
| 2 Oct 2026 | Bertie van Zyl (Pty) Ltd and Another v The Municipal Manager of the Polokwane Local Municipality and Others[2026] ZASCA 133 · 645/2025 · Final interdict – requirements – Contravention of legislation – whether such contravention sufficient to secure a final interdict – need by... |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Pace v The State[2026] ZASCA 132 · 276/2024 · Criminal procedure – prosecution of appeal – late noting of appeal – application for condonation – lapsed appeal – absence of application fo... |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Makasela Consulting and Projects (Pty) Ltd v Mopani District Municipality[2026] ZASCA 131 · 773/2024 · Professional Engineering Services – Reconsideration of application for special leave to appeal – risk-based appointment of applicant providi... |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Lebra Development (Pty) Ltd and Others v Bester and Others[2026] ZASCA 125 · 237/2025 · Civil Procedure – Uniform Rules of Court – non-compliance – rule 49 – explanation for the entire period of the delay – lapse of appeal – app... |
| 29 Sep 2026 | NUMSA and Others v SCAW South Africa (Pty) Ltd[2026] ZASCA 126 · Claim for payment of severance pay due in terms of the contract of employment – application of s of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act –... |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Mabunda v The State[2026] ZASCA 127 · 194/2024 · Section 17(2)(f) of the Superior Courts Act of 2013 – reconsideration of a refusal of leave to appeal – threshold of grave failure of justic... |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Seetseng v Minister of Police and Another[2026] ZASCA 128 · 1088/2024 · Delict – unlawful arrest and detention – liability for subsequent detention – effect of declaration of unlawfulness – different parties may... |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Tullis Laundry Solutions Africa (Pty) Ltd v MEC for Health, Western Cape and Another (472/2023); MEC for Health, Western Cape v Tullis Laundry Solutions Africa (Pty) Ltd and Another[2026] ZASCA 129 · 634/2025 · Interpretation – court order – unlawfully awarded contract – suspension of invalidity to preserve delivery of essential service rather than... |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Breede Valley Onafhanklik v Speaker of the Breede Valley Municipality and Others[2026] ZASCA 130 · 130/2025 · Local government — appointment of councillors to committees established in terms of s read with s of the Local Government: Municipal Structu... |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Ad All CC v Kapa Bokoni Trading and Projects 10 CC[2026] ZASCA 124 · 69/2025 · Unjustified enrichment – illegal contract – statutory illegality – s 20(1)(a) of the Private Security Industry Regulation Act of 2001 – cond... |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Financial Intelligence Centre and Others v Ndudane and Others[2026] ZASCA 122 · 267/2025 · Financial Intelligence Centre Act of 2001 (the Act) – confidential information submitted to the Financial Intelligence Centre – purpose and... |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Capitec v Ubuntu Family Health Centre Grayston (Pty) Ltd[2026] ZASCA 123 · 328/2025 · Company law – general moratorium in s 133 of the Companies Act of 2008 (the Act) – no application to vindicatory proceedings – for return of... |
| 17 Sep 2026 | Legal Practitioners' Fidelity Fund Board v Rodney Adrian Love and Another[2026] ZASCA 120 · 79/2025 · Constitutional Law – principle of legality – High Court issuing order contradicting finding of appellate court that claim against fidelity f... |
| 11 Sep 2026 | The Dombo Community and Others v Tshakhuma Community Trust and Others[2026] ZASCA 118 · 795/2024 · Administrative law – review – decision of the Regional Land Claims Commission to accept a community land claim and to gazette the claim in r... |
| 9 Sep 2026 | The Registrar of Animal Improvement v The Chianina Cattle Breeders’ Society of South Africa and Others[2026] ZASCA 117 · 1031/2024 · Animal Improvement Act of 1998 (the Act) – Promotion of Administrative Justice Act of 2000 (PAJA) – whether the high court was correct in gr... |
| 7 Sep 2026 | Barnard v Barnard[2026] ZASCA 115 · 562/2025 · Civil procedure – condonation and reinstatement of a lapsed appeal – rule 33(4) separation of issues order – whether the trial court exceede... |
| 7 Sep 2026 | The Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service v Cornucopia Trust[2026] ZASCA 116 · 469/2025 · Tax Law - Income Tax Act of 1962 (the Act) – whether the raising fee paid by Cornucopia constituted ‘interest’, in the form of a ‘similar fi... |
| 4 Sep 2026 | Kido Staalwerke CC v Safety Engineering International LLC and Another (2652024)[2026] ZASCA 114 · Intellectual property law – patent – infringement of claims – test to prove infringement restated – onus to prove that the infringer infring... |
| 3 Sep 2026 | Equal Education v MEC for Education, Western Cape Government and Others (298/2024); South African Democratic Teachers’ Union v MEC for Education, Western Cape and Others[2026] ZASCA 113 · 351/2024 · Constitutional law – ss and of the Constitution – Western Cape Provincial School Education Amendment Act of 2018 – constitutional challenge... |
| 28 Aug 2026 | Municipal Employees Pension Fund v Ntabankulu Local Municipality[2026] ZASCA 112 · 098/2025 · Civil Procedure – rescission of judgment – Uniform Rule 42(1)(a) – whether the appellant has met the requirements for rescission in terms of... |
| 25 Aug 2026 | Kalagadi Manganese (Pty) Limited & Others v Industrial Development Corporation of SA Limited & Others[2026] ZASCA 111 · 1019/2024 · Refusal of leave to appeal – reconsideration in terms of s 17(2)(f) of the Superior Courts Act – whether exceptional circumstances in the fo... |
| 21 Aug 2026 | Chetane v The Minister of Police and Another (4822025)[2026] ZASCA 110 · Delict – criminal procedure – unlawful arrest and detention in terms of s 40(1)(b) of the CPA – malicious prosecution – whether the appellan... |
| 20 Aug 2026 | South African Board for Sheriffs v Thaka Frederick Seboka and Others[2026] ZASCA 109 · 293/2024 · Civil Procedure – Sheriffs Act of 1986 – the role of the South African Board for Sheriffs in the appointment of acting sheriffs and the issu... |
| 14 Aug 2026 | Topigs Norsvin (Pty) Ltd v Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd and Others[2026] ZASCA 108 · 117/2025 · Civil Law and Procedure – Environmental Law – structural interdict – whether the granting of a structural interdict would infringe on the do... |
| 13 Aug 2026 | Hengdeli Deyesion International Shipping Limited v MV ‘Haralambos’ and Others[2026] ZASCA 107 · 104/2025 · Maritime Law – vessel association – Admiralty Jurisdiction Regulation Act 105 of 1983 (AJRA) – standard and burden of proof on reconsiderati... |
| 12 Aug 2026 | 79/2025)[2026] ZASCA 106 · Contempt of Court – Code of Advertising Practice – Intellectual Property – court order prohibiting marketing of product in offending packagi... |
| 4 Aug 2026 | N K obo U K v MEC for Health Eastern Cape[2026] ZASCA 105 · 805/2024 · Delict – medical negligence – whether negligent conduct of hospital staff causally connected to child’s brain damage – causation not establi... |
| 29 Jul 2026 | JP Fourie NO and Another v The Master of the High Court, Mahikeng and Another[2026] ZASCA 104 · 595/2024 · Winding-up – interpretation – s 18(4) of the Insolvency Act of 1936 read with the Companies Act of 1973 – application of Insolvency Act prov... |
| 27 Jul 2026 | Showroom Centre (Pty) Ltd v Kagan[2026] ZASCA 103 · 573/2024 |
| 24 Jul 2026 | Janse van Vuuren v WJB Stieger Konstruksie (Pty) Ltd[2026] ZASCA 102 · 1459/2024 · Prescription – section 12(3) of the Prescription Act of 1969 – application of prescription regulated by the provisions of the Housing Consum... |
| 21 Jul 2026 | Swanvest 328 (Pty) Ltd and Others v Ensemble Hotel Holdings (Pty) Ltd and Others[2026] ZASCA 101 · 232/2025 · Companies Act of 2008 (Companies Act) – oppressive or prejudicial conduct – relief under s 163 of the Companies Act – whether majority share... |
| 13 Jul 2026 | Alpheus Mogase Molopo v The State[2026] ZASCA 100 · 1115/2024 · Evidence – reliability of identification evidence – cautionary rule – housebreaking, robbery with aggravating circumstances and murder – app... |
| 7 Jul 2026 | FirstRand Limited and Another v National Bank of Abu Dhabi PJSC (Pty) Limited[2026] ZASCA 98 · 662/2024 · Intellectual Property – Trade marks – Trade Marks Act 194 of 1993 – s 10(4) – whether there is a bona fide intention of using a mark as a tr... |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Mpumalanga Society of Advocates v Judicial Service Commission and Others[2026] ZASCA 99 · 1186/2024 · Judicial Service Commission – recommendation of a candidate for judicial appointment, unaware of adverse comments against the candidate and... |
| 3 Jul 2026 | The Legal Practitioners’ Indemnity Insurance Fund v Johan Venter & Associates and Another[2026] ZASCA 95 · 1524/2024 · Reconsideration application – s 17(2)(f) of Superior Courts Act of 2013 – application for reconsideration of refusal of petition for leave t... |
| 3 Jul 2026 | QI Logistics (Pty) Ltd v The Commissioner for SARS[2026] ZASCA 96 · 180/2025 · Customs and Excise Act of 1964 – statutory obligations of clearing agents appointed under s 64B – proof required to acquit goods entered for... |
| 3 Jul 2026 | MEC for Economic Development, Environment, Agriculture and Rural Development (Gauteng) and Another v Phumelela Gaming and Leisure Limited and Another[2026] ZASCA 97 · 42/2025 · Appeal noted – whether appeal has lapsed – application for condonation and reinstatement of appeal – whether adequate or any explanation was... |
| 29 Jun 2026 | Ramdhin v Rondebosch Medical Centre (Pty) Ltd[2026] ZASCA 93 · 084/2025 · Contract – for admission privileges to hospital – medical practitioner found guilty of unprofessional conduct and suspended from practice –... |
| 29 Jun 2026 | Director of Public Prosecutions v Maxam and Others[2026] ZASCA 94 · 388/2021 · Criminal Law – Prevention of Organised Crime Act 121 of 1998 (POCA) – Racketeering – existence of an enterprise – whether evidence establish... |
| 26 Jun 2026 | Rose v National Prosecuting Authority N O and Others[2026] ZASCA 91 · 665/2025 · Joinder – private prosecution – substantial and direct interest – private prosecutor seeking the without-prejudice representations made by t... |
| 26 Jun 2026 | De Bruyn v The Master of the High Court, Pretoria and Others[2026] ZASCA 92 · 1388/2024 · Administration of Estates – spousal maintenance claim – Maintenance of Surviving Spouses Act of 1990 – Administration of Estates Act of 1965... |
| 24 Jun 2026 | The Profit Hub (Pty) Ltd v Zuwon Consultants (Pty) Ltd and Another[2026] ZASCA 88 · 445/2025 · National Credit Act of 2005 (the Act) – application of the Act – credit facility – s 8(3)(a) of the Act – the distinction between a discount... |