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Case law

Supreme Court of Appeal judgments

Newest first, read from the court's own list the day each is handed down.

Handed downJudgment
9 Jan 2024 Emontic Investments (Pty) Ltd v Bothomley NO and Others[2024] ZASCA 1 · 1123/2022 · Company – Winding-up – s 83(10) of the Insolvency Act of 1936 – set-off – whether a creditor who has realised its security in terms of s 83(...
22 Dec 2023 South African Municipal Workers’ Union National Medical Scheme (SAMWUMED) v City of Ekurhuleni and Others (12972022)[2023] ZASCA 182 · Collective agreement – s of the Labour Relations Act of 1995 – parties to a collective agreement – medical schemes – accreditation of medica...
22 Dec 2023 Secona Freight Logistics CC v Samie and Others[2023] ZASCA 183 · 1074/2022 · Civil procedure – locus standi – appealability – whether the issue of locus standi determined as a point in limine is appealable.
21 Dec 2023 Allied Steelrode (Pty) Ltd v Dreyer and Another[2023] ZASCA 181 · 1120/2022 · National Credit Act of 2005 – whether agreement subject to the Act – loan and acknowledgment of debt not at arm’s length – interest only pay...
18 Dec 2023 Nedbank Limited and Another v Survé and Others[2023] ZASCA 178 · 160/2023 · Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act of 2000 – application for interim interdict in Equality Court – failure to...
18 Dec 2023 Hough & Bremner and Another v The Road Accident Fund[2023] ZASCA 179 · 1024/2022 · Civil procedure and practice – Contingency Fees Agreement Act of 1997 – high court finding that the fees agreement concluded between the app...
18 Dec 2023 Enviroserv Waste Management (Pty) Ltd v The Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service[2023] ZASCA 180 · 154/2022 · Income tax law – s 12C(1)(a) of the Income Tax Act of 1962 (the ITA) – whether cells built into landfills and used for treatment and storage...
14 Dec 2023 Grupo Bimbo S.A.B. v Takis Biltong[2023] ZASCA 175 · 293/2022 · Reconsideration of dismissal of application for special leave to appeal ─ cancellation of applicant’s trade mark ─ Takis Fuego ─ likely to d...
14 Dec 2023 Mashisane v Mhlauli[2023] ZASCA 176 · 903/2022 · Family law – customary law – civil procedure – declaratory relief sought on whether parties married according to customary law – dispute of...
14 Dec 2023 South African Legal Practice Council v Mokhele[2023] ZASCA 177 · 1138/2022 · Legal Practice – s of the Legal Practice Act of 2014 – whether the court may hear a matter that has become moot – the issues for determinati...
8 Dec 2023 Hashtag Movement v Ethiopian Church of South Africa and Others[2023] ZASCA 173 · 1046/2023 · Automatic appeal in terms of s 18(4) of Superior Courts Act of 2013 – order made by a single judge of a High Court – appeal lies to the full...
8 Dec 2023 Smith and Another[2023] ZASCA 174 · 1072/22 · Civil procedure – Magistrates’ Court Act of 1944 and Rules – sheriffs’ fees and charges – whether sheriff entitled to demand payment of fees...
5 Dec 2023 Danny Joseph Sibiya and Others v Road Accident Fund[2023] ZASCA 171 · 1067/2022 · Practice and procedure – Contingency Fees Act of 1997 – whether the high court ruling met the benchmark of fairness, rationality and reasona...
5 Dec 2023 De Klerk v The State[2023] ZASCA 172 · 718/2022 · Criminal law and procedure – appeal – appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal against the refusal of a petition in the high court seeking leav...
4 Dec 2023 Andrew Barney August v The State[2023] ZASCA 170 · 962/2022 · Application for condonation of the late filing of notice of appeal – requirements for condonation restated – appellant not satisfying requir...
1 Dec 2023 City of Cape Town v Mtyido[2023] ZASCA 163 · 1272/2022 · Delict – widening of pleadings – wrongfulness and negligence – respondent injured as a result of open manhole under control of appellant – o...
1 Dec 2023 Percy Mosuetsa v Derrick Mosuetsa and Others[2023] ZASCA 164 · 746/2022 · Civil procedure – order of court not appealed or rescinded – application to stay execution – issue res judicata unless set aside on appeal o...
1 Dec 2023 Ubuhlebezwe Municipality v Ramsunder[2023] ZASCA 165 · 873/2022 · Interdict – Final – Whether clear right established. Interpretation – National Building Regulations and Building Standards Act 103 of 1977 –...
1 Dec 2023 Islandsite Investments 180 (Pty) Ltd v National Director of Public Prosecutions and Others[2023] ZASCA 166 · 894/2022 · Company Law –– restraint order under the Prevention of Organised Crime Act 121 of 1998 – authority to represent company in business rescue –...
1 Dec 2023 Legal Practice Council v Bulelani Rubushe[2023] ZASCA 167 · 1004/2022 · Legal Practitioner – misconduct involving dishonesty – striking from the roll appropriate remedy – court a quo making material misdirection...
1 Dec 2023 Kouga Local Municipality v St Francis Bay (Ward 12) Concerned Residents’ Association and Others[2023] ZASCA 168 · 1056/2022 · Local government – section of the Local Government: Municipal Property Rates Act of 2004 (PRA) – establishment by municipalities of special...
1 Dec 2023 Pasiya and Others v Lithemba Mining (Pty) Ltd and Others (206/2022) and Pasiya and Others v Lithemba Mining (Pty) Ltd and Others[2023] ZASCA 169 · 264/2022 · Declaratory relief – when competent under s 21(1)(c) of Superior Courts Act of 2013 – company law – whether resolutions to increase authoris...
30 Nov 2023 Member of the Executive Council for Health and Social Development of the Gauteng Provincial Government v Motubatse & Another[2023] ZASCA 162 · 182/2021 · Civil procedure – rescission of default judgment – interlocutory in nature and thus not appealable – application for condonation and special...
28 Nov 2023 Bisschoff N O obo Reyners v Passenger Rail Agency Of South Africa[2023] ZASCA 160 · 727/2022 · Prescription – interruption of running of extinctive prescription – claimant of unsound mind – prescription only begins to run from the date...
28 Nov 2023 Ciba Packaging (Pty) Ltd t/a Cibapac v Timelink Cargo (Pty) Ltd[2023] ZASCA 161 · 1156/2022 · Civil procedure – appealability of dismissal of an exception – restatement of principles.
24 Nov 2023 African National Congress v Ezulweni Investments (Pty) Ltd[2023] ZASCA 159 · 979/2022 · Contract – conclusion – authority to conclude – test for factual disputes – evaluation of evidence – bare denials coupled with untenable ver...
23 Nov 2023 and 913/2022 Armitage NO v Valencia Holdings 13 (Pty) Ltd and Others[2023] ZASCA 157 · 638/2022 · Company law ─ action by executor of deceased shareholder’s estate ─ s 163 of the Companies Act of 2008 (the Act) ─ oppressive or unfairly pr...
21 Nov 2023 Ntshongwana v The State[2023] ZASCA 156 · 1304/2021 · Criminal law – defence of pathological incapacity – ss 78(1A) and 78(1B) of the Criminal Procedure Act of 1977 – onus on accused to prove la...
17 Nov 2023 Smit v The State[2023] ZASCA 154 · 1256/2022 · Criminal law and procedure – fraud – whether appellant had intent, in the form of dolus eventualis, to commit fraud – whether the appellant,...
17 Nov 2023 Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and Others v Wilhelm Pretorius and Others[2023] ZASCA 155 · 440/2022 · Appeal – Superior Courts Act of 2013, s 16(2)(a) – mootness – whether, irrespective of mootness, interests of justice require decision on ap...
15 Nov 2023 King Price Insurance Company Limited v Mhlongo[2023] ZASCA 152 · 1016/2022 · Civil procedure – claim under insurance policy arising from motor vehicle collision – market value pleaded – evidence led on shortfall of am...
15 Nov 2023 Forestry South Africa v Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation and Others (777/2022) and Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation and Others v Forestry South Africa[2023] ZASCA 153 · 824/2022 · Statutory Interpretation – Interpretation of s of the National Water Act of 1998 read with ss 4, 21, 22, 33, 34, and 26 – whether lawfulness...
14 Nov 2023 Hulisani Viccel Sithangu v Capricorn District Municipality[2023] ZASCA 151 · 593/2022 · Application for special leave referred for oral argument in terms of s 17(2)(d) of the Superior Courts Act of 2013 – whether special leave t...
10 Nov 2023 Chairperson of the Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board and Others v Goldrush Group Management (Pty) Ltd and Another[2023] ZASCA 148 · 660/2022 · Review – Gambling – Provincial Gambling Board having licenced two limited payout gambling machine operators and allocated limited payout mac...
10 Nov 2023 Ilse Becker and Others v The Financial Services Conduct Authority and Others[2023] ZASCA 149 · 454/2022 · Constitutional law – financial services regulation – whether ss 154, 167 and 231 of the Financial Sector Regulation Act of 2017 (the Act) un...
10 Nov 2023 Vumani Oscar Ntuli v The State (10252022)[2023] ZASCA 150 · Appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal against the refusal of the high court of a petition seeking leave to appeal against conviction and sen...
9 Nov 2023 De Nysschen v Government Employees Pension Fund and Others (8642022)[2023] ZASCA 147 · Civil Procedure – whether competent for a court to grant an order for payment of a debt which was not sought – proper approach to pleadings.
8 Nov 2023 Lueven Metals (Pty) Ltd v Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service[2023] ZASCA 144 · 728/2022 · Tax law – declaratory order – whether appropriate not considered by high court – narrow basis for entertaining application for declaratory r...
8 Nov 2023 Majope and Others v The Road Accident Fund[2023] ZASCA 145 · 663/2022 · Default judgment against the RAF – whether an attorney and client fee agreement should be incorporated in a court order – a court is not ent...
8 Nov 2023 Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development and Others v Ntuli (Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional services intervening as amicus curiae)[2023] ZASCA 146 · 539/2020 · Constitutional law – the right to further education – s 29(1)(b) of the Constitution – unfair discrimination – Promotion of Equality and Pre...
2 Nov 2023 The Body Corporate of Marsh Rose v Steinmuller and Others[2023] ZASCA 143 · 149/2022 · Property law – Sectional Titles Act of 1986 – reliance on transfer registration embargo established in terms of s 15B(3)(a)(i)(aa) of the Se...
30 Oct 2023 Knoop NO and Others v National Director of Public Prosecutions (Case nos 657/2022 and 694/2022)[2023] ZASCA 141 · Prevention of Organised Crime Act 121 of 1998 (POCA) – asset forfeiture – preservation of property order – Companies Act 71 0f 2008 (Compani...
30 Oct 2023 Fleet Africa (Pty) Limited v Polokwane Local Municipality[2023] ZASCA 142 · 720/2022 · Contract law – jurisdiction – Superior Courts Act of 2013 – whether the parties explicitly agreed that a particular high court would have ex...
27 Oct 2023 Mohuba v University of Limpopo[2023] ZASCA 139 · 730/2022 · Whether the relationship between a university and a student is contractual or administrative in nature – refusal by a university to confer a...
27 Oct 2023 Narius Moloto v The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania[2023] ZASCA 140 · 1176/2019 · Civil procedure – review application – whether changed circumstances existed since the order appealed was granted – any decision sought not...
25 Oct 2023 Ba-Gat Motors CC t/a Gys Pitzer Motoring and Another v Kempster Sedgwick (Pty) Ltd[2023] ZASCA 137 · 511/2022 · Summary judgment – non-variation clause – oral agreement alleged – application of the Shifren principle and estoppel.
25 Oct 2023 Emalahleni Local Municipality v Lehlaka Property Development (Pty) Ltd[2023] ZASCA 138 · 600/2022 · Civil law and procedure – practice – joinder – no public law relationship between private landowner and unlawful occupiers – notion of a ‘sp...
19 Oct 2023 Bouwer and Another NNO v Master of the High Court, Pretoria[2023] ZASCA 135 · 916/2022 · Administration of estates – annual curator’s account in terms of ss and of the Administration of Estates Act of 1965 – realised capital asse...
19 Oct 2023 Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development and Others v Ndumo (obo Emdwebu Community)[2023] ZASCA 136 · 577/2022 · Land claim – Restitution of Land Rights Act of 1994 – whether family or community claim – whether the second and fourth respondents impliedl...
18 Oct 2023 Mantis Investments Holdings v De Jager N O[2023] ZASCA 134 · 696/2022 · Sections and 151 of the Insolvency Act – Master’s decision admitting a creditor’s claim against a company in liquidation stands unless set a...