Newest first, read from the court's own list the day each is handed down.
| Handed down | Judgment |
|---|---|
| 29 Apr 2022 | Astral Operations Ltd t/a Country Fair Foods and Others v The Minister for Local Government, Environmental Affairs and Development Planning (Western Cape) and Others[2022] ZASCA 62 · 3509/2014 · Environmental law – application for environmental authorisation in terms of s of the Environment Conservation Act of 1989 (ECA) – Appeal aga... |
| 29 Apr 2022 | IGS Consulting Engineers & Another v Transnet Soc Limited[2022] ZASCA 63 · 198/20 · Administrative law – non-compliance with s 217 of the Constitution - contracts set aside. Civil procedure – s 16(2)(a) of Superior Courts Ac... |
| 26 Apr 2022 | Heidi Nicole Koch N O and Another v The Ad hoc Central Authority for the Republic of South Africa and Another[2022] ZASCA 60 · 188/2021 · Children – whether retention by one parent of the child in South Africa was wrongful – return of the child to the United Kingdom (UK) sought... |
| 22 Apr 2022 | Commissioner, South African Revenue Service v Sasol Chevron Holdings Limited[2022] ZASCA 56 · 1044/2020 · Administrative law – Promotion of Administrative Justice Act of 2000 (PAJA) – application for review of administrative action – delay in ins... |
| 22 Apr 2022 | Minister of Police and Another v Erasmus[2022] ZASCA 57 · 366/2021 · Delict – actio iniuriarum – unlawful arrest and detention – liability of police for post-court appearance detention – not caused by unlawful... |
| 22 Apr 2022 | Mirchandani v Unica Iron & Steel (Pty) Ltd and Unica Iron & Steel (Pty) Ltd v Mirchandani (Case no 802/2020 & 813/2020)[2022] ZASCA 58 · Damages – breach of profit share agreement and lease agreements – claim for payment of utilities and bond charges erroneously debited in app... |
| 22 Apr 2022 | Le Hanie and Others v Glasson and Others[2022] ZASCA 59 · 214/2021 · Contempt of court – interpretation of court order – non- compliance not proven – absence of wilfulness and mala fides – court order not dire... |
| 20 Apr 2022 | David Papiki Komane v The State[2022] ZASCA 55 · 51/2019 · Criminal law – evidence – what constitutes sufficiency of circumstantial evidence – conviction based on circumstantial evidence well- founde... |
| 13 Apr 2022 | Central Energy Fund SOC Ltd and Another v Venus Rays Trade (Pty) Ltd and Others[2022] ZASCA 54 · 119/21 · Review under principle of legality and Promotion of Administrative Justice Act of 2000 – rotation of country’s strategic oil stock – decisio... |
| 12 Apr 2022 | Advertising Regulatory Board NPC and Others v Bliss Brands (Pty) Ltd[2022] ZASCA 51 · 786/21 · Administrative Law – private body exercising public functions – submission to jurisdiction – powers of the Administrative Regulatory Board (... |
| 12 Apr 2022 | HLB International (South Africa) v MWRK Accountants and Consultants[2022] ZASCA 52 · 113/2021 · Practice – judgments and orders – interpretation of order – applicable principles. |
| 12 Apr 2022 | Loskop Landgoed Boerdery (Pty) Ltd and Others v Petrus Moeleso and Others[2022] ZASCA 53 · 390/2021 · Land – Extension of Security of Tenure Act of 1997 – occupiers – overgrazing of land – remedies of owner – removal of livestock does not con... |
| 11 Apr 2022 | Minister of Health and Another v Alliance of Natural Health Products (South Africa)[2022] ZASCA 49 · 256/2021 · Medicine – regulations under Medicines and Related Substances Act 101 of 1965 (the Act) – ultra vires to extent that they purport to regulat... |
| 11 Apr 2022 | Oppressed A C S A Minority 1 (Pty) Ltd and Another v Government of the Republic of South Africa and Others[2022] ZASCA 50 · 898/2020 · Civil Procedure – rescission of judgment – no distinction in approach to rescission of consent orders and other judgments – the starting poi... |
| 8 Apr 2022 | Susara Magrietha Strohmenger v Schalk Willem Victor and Another[2022] ZASCA 45 · 1133/20 · Contract – restitution – prescription – whether special circumstances existed for this Court to grant special leave to appeal – whether the... |
| 8 Apr 2022 | Municipal Employees’ Pension Fund and Another v Pandelani Midas Mudau and Another[2022] ZASCA 46 · 1159/2020 · Pension Funds – amendment of pension fund rules to reduce members’ withdrawal benefits with retroactive effect – such rule valid and enforce... |
| 8 Apr 2022 | Johannes G Coetzee & Seun and Another v Le Roux and Another[2022] ZASCA 47 · 969/2020 · Prescription – extinctive prescription – ‘facts from which the debt arises’ in terms of s 12(3) of the Prescription Act of 1969 – knowledge... |
| 8 Apr 2022 | Thabo Sindisa Kwinana and Others v Lulama Smuts Ngonyama and Others[2022] ZASCA 48 · 103/2021 · Civil procedure – application for intervention on appeal – no legal interest in subject matter of litigation – application for rescission of... |
| 6 Apr 2022 | WK Construction (Pty) Ltd v Moores Rowland and Others[2022] ZASCA 44 · 952/2020 · Civil procedure – extinctive prescription – special plea – debt deemed due once creditor acquires, or could reasonably have acquired, knowle... |
| 5 Apr 2022 | Brits v Kommandantsdrift CC and Others[2022] ZASCA 41 · 143/2021 |
| 5 Apr 2022 | Minister of Police v Mzingeli and Others[2022] ZASCA 42 · 115/2021 |
| 5 Apr 2022 | Songo v Minister of Police and Others[2022] ZASCA 43 · 220/2021 · Whether the court a quo was correct in holding that the fourth and fifth special pleas of no cause of action had to be adjudicated separatel... |
| 4 Apr 2022 | Sibongile Lupumlo Mpuqe v The State[2022] ZASCA 37 · 53/2021 · Criminal Law and Procedure – appellant indicted for murder under s 51(2) of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 105 of 1997 – convicted and sente... |
| 4 Apr 2022 | The Compensation Commissioner v Botha[2022] ZASCA 38 · 326/2020 · Labour law – Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act 130 of 1993 – whether injury on duty resulted in disablement – extent o... |
| 4 Apr 2022 | Lucky Thomas Khumalo v The State[2022] ZASCA 39 · 723/20 · Criminal procedure – appeal against refusal in a high court of a petition seeking leave to appeal against convictions and sentences – reason... |
| 4 Apr 2022 | Timothy Maluleke N.O. v Daniel Phellimon Sibanyoni and Others[2022] ZASCA 40 · 1012/2020 · Land – Land Reform –Extension of Security of Tenure Act of 1997 (ESTA) – termination of right of residence – were occupiers given an effecti... |
| 1 Apr 2022 | Rasimate Samuel Baloyi v The State[2022] ZASCA 35 · 739/2021 · Criminal Law and Procedure – whether the murder was premeditated – life sentence – appropriateness of sentence. 2 __________________________... |
| 1 Apr 2022 | Biyela v Minister of Police[2022] ZASCA 36 · 1017/2020 · Delict – unlawful arrest and detention – inadmissible hearsay evidence can form the basis of a reasonable suspicion by a peace officer. 3 __... |
| 31 Mar 2022 | Abdullah v The State[2022] ZASCA 33 · 134/21 · Criminal law and procedure – caution applied to single witness evidence – whether the state witness’ identification was reliable and credibl... |
| 31 Mar 2022 | Moipone Moroka v Premier of the Free State Province and Others[2022] ZASCA 34 · 295/2020 · Customary law – whether the Premier contravened section 21(2)(b) of the Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Act of 2003 when he... |
| 29 Mar 2022 | Yolanda Dyantyi v Rhodes University and Others[2022] ZASCA 32 · 846/2020 · Administrative law – disciplinary proceedings against student at public higher education institution – Promotion of Administrative Justice A... |
| 25 Mar 2022 | Director of Public Prosecutions, Free State v Mokati[2022] ZASCA 31 · 440/2019 · Criminal law and procedure – conviction and sentence – culpable homicide – causation – mens rea – whether questions of law properly reserved... |
| 24 Mar 2022 | Adendorff N O and Another v Kubheka and Another[2022] ZASCA 29 · 463/20 |
| 24 Mar 2022 | Thepanyega N O and Others v Letsoalo and Others[2022] ZASCA 30 · 73/2021 |
| 18 Mar 2022 | Sekoko Mametja Incorporated Attorneys v Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality[2022] ZASCA 28 · 60/2021 · Local Government – administrative law – tender – review – legality – tender set aside as unlawful – discretionary remedy under s 172(1)(b) o... |
| 15 Mar 2022 | Department of Transport, Province of KwaZulu-Natal and Others[2022] ZASCA 27 · 1059/2020 · Promotion of Administrative Justice Act of 2000 (the PAJA) – jurisdiction of courts to review administrative action – definition of ‘court’... |
| 9 Mar 2022 | Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers Limited v Novus Holdings Limited[2022] ZASCA 24 · 219/2021 · Practice and procedure – Uniform Rules – rule 35(12) – production of documents mentioned in or referred to in the other party's affidavit –... |
| 9 Mar 2022 | Alberts and Others v The Minister of Justice and Correctional Services[2022] ZASCA 25 · 404/2021 · Summons – multiple plaintiffs – special plea of misjoinder – test whether issues of fact and law substantially the same for each plaintiff –... |
| 9 Mar 2022 | Eskom Holdings SOC Limited v Letsemeng Local Municipality and Others[2022] ZASCA 26 · 990/2020 · Electricity Regulation Act of 2006 – interdict and counter-application – municipality’s obligation to pay for electricity supplied to it by... |
| 1 Mar 2022 | Trustees for the time being of the Burmilla Trust and Another v President of the RSA and Another[2022] ZASCA 22 · 64/2021 · International law – appellants claimed before Southern African Development Community Tribunal (SADC tribunal) that Kingdom of Lesotho (Lesot... |
| 1 Mar 2022 | City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality v Brooklyn Edge (Pty) Ltd and Another[2022] ZASCA 23 · 928/2020 · Contract – sale by municipality of immovable properties – challenge by municipality of order enforcing sale agreement – suggested tacit cond... |
| 23 Feb 2022 | Rapholo Edwin Manyaka v The State[2022] ZASCA 21 · 434/2020 · Criminal law and procedure – condonation – special leave to appeal in terms of s 16(1)(b) of the Superior Courts Act of 2013 – court of appe... |
| 22 Feb 2022 | LA Group (Pty) Ltd v Stable Brands (Pty) Ltd and Another[2022] ZASCA 20 · 650/2020 · Trade marks – whether marks liable to be removed from register – lack of distinctiveness in terms of s read with ss 10(2)(a), (b) and (c) of... |
| 18 Feb 2022 | Makhala & Another v The State[2021] ZASCA 19 · 438/2020 · Criminal Procedure – State witness recanting prior inconsistent statements – the constitutional rights of witness – hearsay evidence – admis... |
| 16 Feb 2022 | Condy Mawela & Another v The State[2022] ZASCA 18 · 377/2021 · Criminal law and procedure – murder – common purpose – whether the court correctly applied the legal principle of dolus eventualis – correct... |
| 7 Feb 2022 | Premier of the Western Cape Province v The Public Protector & Another[2022] ZASCA 16 · 771/2020 · Administrative law – Review of the findings and remedial action of the Public Protector – findings and decision of public protector material... |
| 4 Feb 2022 | Deltamune (Pty) Ltd and Others v Tiger Brands Limited and Others[2022] ZASCA 15 · 847/2020 · Subpoenas duces tecum – whether the subpoenas issued against third parties relevant to underlying class action – whether ambit of subpoenas... |
| 27 Jan 2022 | Naidoo and Another v The Dube Tradeport Corporation and Others[2022] ZASCA 14 · 972/2020 · Civil procedure – Exception proceedings – proper approach restated. Close Corporations – common law derivative action – whether available in... |
| 26 Jan 2022 | Member of the Executive Council, Department of Education, Eastern Cape v Komani School & Office Supplies CC, t/a Komani Stationers[2022] ZASCA 13 · 1417/2018 · Public school and school governing body – South African Schools Act of 1996 as amended (the Schools Act) – interpretation of s 60(1) – liabi... |
| 25 Jan 2022 | Cornerstone Logistics (Pty) Ltd and Another v Zacpak Cape Town Depot (Pty) Ltd[2022] ZASCA 12 · 879/2020 · Interpretation of contractual provisions intended to indemnify licensee of a customs warehouse against liability for customs duty, VAT, and... |