45 judgments on file that touch prescription, newest first, each with the court's own file.
| Handed down | Judgment | Court |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Aug 2026 | Municipal Employees Pension Fund v Ntabankulu Local Municipality[2026] ZASCA 112 · Civil Procedure – rescission of judgment – Uniform Rule 42(1)(a) – whether the appellant has met the requirements for rescission in terms of... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 24 Jul 2026 | Janse van Vuuren v WJB Stieger Konstruksie (Pty) Ltd[2026] ZASCA 102 · Prescription – section 12(3) of the Prescription Act of 1969 – application of prescription regulated by the provisions of the Housing Consum... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Gorr Assist (Pty) Ltd v Bayport Securitisation (RF) Ltd[2026] ZASCA 51 · Appeal – application for special leave to appeal – condonation – whether reasonable prospects of success on appeal – determining factual bas... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 30 Jan 2026 | Lewis Stores Proprietary Ltd v Pepkor Holdings Ltd and Others[2026] ZACC 4 · Competition law — intervention in large merger — test restated — Competition Appeal Court erring in introducing new test or applying wrong t... | Constitutional Court |
| 28 Nov 2025 | Samuel Alfred Schoonhoven N O and Others v Pieter Cornelius Antonius Schoonhoven and Others[2025] ZASCA 178 · Trusts – discretionary trust – designation of capital beneficiaries – testamentary reservation – founder’s right to designate – scope of the... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 9 Oct 2025 | The IPA Foundation (NPC) v South African Pharmacy Council[2025] ZASCA 148 · Pharmacy Act of 1974 – Pharmacy Council’s power to expand the scope of practice of pharmacists to provide pharmacist-initiated management of... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 17 Sep 2025 | Tight Business Enterprise CC v Petrus Johannes Lordan NO & Others[2025] ZASCA 133 · Civil Procedure – special plea – Prescription Act of 1969 – whether prescription begins to run on the date of signing an agreement or on the... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 11 Jun 2025 | Kwadukuza Municipality v Consolidated Aone Trade and Invest 6 (Pty) Ltd [in Liquidation] and Others[2025] ZASCA 86 · Local Government: Municipal Systems Act of 2000 (Municipal Systems Act) – whether the high court correctly found that payment made under pro... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 20 May 2025 | Auckland Park Theological Seminary v Wamjay Holding Investments (PTY) Ltd[2025] ZASCA 65 · Unjustified enrichment – s 12(3) of the Prescription Act of 1969 (Prescription Act) – commencement of the running of prescription – whether... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 14 May 2025 | Steyn and Another v Venter and Others[2025] ZASCA 59 · Prescription Act of 1969 – Close Corporations Act of 1984 – whether claims instituted by the first and second respondents against the appell... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 30 Apr 2025 | Huntrex 277 (Pty) Ltd v Berzack and Others[2025] ZACC 6 · Servitude — whether praedial or personal — approach to interpretation of servitude — whether servitude compliant with principles of property... | Constitutional Court |
| 19 Mar 2025 | Tosholo v Road Accident Fund[2025] ZASCA 21 · Civil Procedure – special plea of prior settlement – compromised claim – settlement agreement neither challenged nor rectified – Road Accide... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 12 Dec 2024 | Petersen and Others v SASSA (1106/2023, 1139/2023 and 1053/2023)[2024] ZASCA 173 · Self-review – Legality review – undue delay – prescription – Prescription Act of 1969 – debt – public law remedy – judgment debt – intergove... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 25 Oct 2024 | Rademeyer v Ferreira[2024] ZACC 24 · Prescription Act 68 of 1969 — sale agreement — same cause of action — breach of contract — specific performance — right to claim damages | Constitutional Court |
| 15 Aug 2024 | Shoprite Checkers (Pty) Limited v Mafate N.O.[2024] ZACC 16 | Constitutional Court |
| 25 Jul 2024 | Estelle Le Roux and Another v Dielemaar Holdings (Cape) Pty Ltd and Another[2024] ZASCA 118 · Contract law – contractual claim involving issues of suretyships – special plea of prescription and res judicata – whether the claim in the... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 4 Jul 2024 | Sanoj Jeewan v Transnet SOC Limited and Another[2024] ZASCA 108 · Civil procedure – prescription – whether the high court was correct in finding that the appellant’s claim for contractual and delictual dama... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 6 May 2024 | President of the Republic of South Africa and Another v Tembani and Others[2024] ZACC 5 · Prescription — delictual claims for damages — unconstitutionality of President’s conduct a component of alleged wrongfulness — whether compl... | Constitutional Court |
| 6 May 2024 | Minister of Police v Miya[2024] ZASCA 71 | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 4 Apr 2024 | Mhlari NO and Others v Nedbank Limited[2024] ZASCA 39 · Unjust enrichment ─ conditio indebiti and conditio sine causa specialis ─ when available ─ not required to plead reliance on one to the excl... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 28 Mar 2024 | PRASA v Community Property Company (Pty) Ltd and Another[2024] ZASCA 35 · Contractual claim for payment of amount paid to settle outstanding electricity consumption charges levied by municipality – no contractual r... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 18 Dec 2023 | Pieter Paul Le Roux and Another v Johannes G ` Coetzee and Seuns and Another[2023] ZACC 46 · Prescription Act 68 of 1969 — section 12(3) — clients’ professional negligence claim against legal practitioner — knowledge of facts may inc... | Constitutional Court |
| 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 · Declaratory relief – when competent under s 21(1)(c) of Superior Courts Act of 2013 – company law – whether resolutions to increase authoris... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 28 Nov 2023 | Bisschoff N O obo Reyners v Passenger Rail Agency Of South Africa[2023] ZASCA 160 · Prescription – interruption of running of extinctive prescription – claimant of unsound mind – prescription only begins to run from the date... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 31 May 2023 | East Rand Member District of Chartered Accountants and Another v Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors and Others (1132022)[2023] ZASCA 81 · Application for leave to appeal – referral to oral argument in terms of s 17(2)(d) of the Superior Courts Act of 2013 – Mandatory Audit Firm... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 20 Apr 2023 | South African Municipal Workers’ Union National Provident Fund v Dihlabeng Local Municipality and Others (652022)[2023] ZASCA 55 · Labour law – employee pension fund – whether the dismissed employees were re-employed or reinstated in terms of a settlement agreement – whe... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 15 Dec 2022 | MEC for Health, Eastern Cape v N H obo A[2022] ZASCA 181 · Extinctive prescription – s 12(3) of the Prescription Act of 1969 – inquiry as to what constitutes knowledge of sufficient facts giving rise... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 28 Sep 2022 | Zurich Insurance Company South Africa Ltd v Gauteng Provincial Government[2022] ZASCA 127 · Insurance contract – damage to rock mass when tunnels for Gautrain Rapid Rail System constructed – whether insured’s claim had prescribed –... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 15 Jul 2022 | Minister of Police and Others v Samuel Molokwane[2022] ZASCA 111 · Civil Procedure – s 2(2) of State Liability Act of 1957 –– whether failure to serve summons against Minister of Police on State Attorney nul... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 11 Mar 2022 | Municipal Employees Pension Fund and Another v Dineo Innolentia Mongwaketse[2022] ZACC 9 · Pension Funds Act 24 of 1956 — definitions of “complainant” and “complaint” — purported admission to membership of ineligible member — wheth... | Constitutional Court |
| 19 Nov 2021 | Phillipa Susan Van Zyl N.O v Road Accident Fund[2021] ZACC 44 · Road Accident Fund Act 56 of 1996 — section 23(1) — section 23(2)(b) and (c) — prescription of claim against the Road Accident Fund — claima... | Constitutional Court |
| 9 Sep 2021 | Jugwanth v MTN[2021] ZASCA 114 | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 11 Jun 2021 | Van Heerden & Brummer Inc v Bath[2021] ZASCA 80 · Prescription Act of 1969 – firm of attorneys sued for damages arising out of drafting of an ante-nuptial contract subsequently found to be i... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 30 Nov 2020 | Madibeng Local Municipality v Public Investment Corporation Ltd[2020] ZASCA 157 · Claims for payments of debts – quantum admitted or deemed to be admitted on the pleadings – Prescription Act of 1969 – s 11(b) – the Public... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 16 Sep 2020 | Investec Bank Limited v Erf 436 Elandspoort (Pty) Ltd and Others[2020] ZASCA 104 · Prescription Act of 1969 – s of the Act – whether series of payments in terms of agreement between creditor and debtor were acknowledgements... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 24 Jun 2020 | Competition Commission of South Africa v Pickfords Removals SA (Pty) Limited[2020] ZACC 14 · Constitution — section 34 — access to courts — interpretation of legislation Competition Act 89 of 1998 — section 67 — time bar provision —... | Constitutional Court |
| 9 Apr 2019 | Kruger v National Director of Public Prosecutions[2019] ZACC 13 · Jurisdiction — Purely factual issue does not raise jurisdiction — No constitutional or legal issue Prescription — Prescription Act 68 of 196... | Constitutional Court |
| 31 Oct 2018 | eThekwini Municipality v Mounthaven (Pty) Limited[2018] ZACC 43 · Meaning of debt — Prescription Act 68 of 1969 — Real rights — Limited Real Rights — Personal rights — reversionary clauses Deeds Registries... | Constitutional Court |
| 14 Jun 2018 | Levenstein and Others v Estate of the Late Sidney Lewis Frankel and Others[2018] ZACC 16 · Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 — constitutionality of section 18 — section 18 is unconstitutional Prescription of the right to institute... | Constitutional Court |
| 1 Jun 2018 | Road Accident Fund v Masindi[2018] ZASCA 94 | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 25 May 2018 | Contract – interpretation – application to recover claims for security services – appellant electing to abide – invoicing on respondent’s calculations of price escalations– not communicating objection to alleged short payment – defences of waiver and prescription upheld. Douglasdale Dairy & others v Bragge & another[2018] ZASCA 68 · Rights of fideicommisaries upon death of fiduciary – right of executor of fiduciary’s estate to enforce eviction order granted to fiduciary... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 27 Feb 2018 | Loni v Member of the Executive Council, Department of Health, Eastern Cape, Bhisho[2018] ZACC 4 | Constitutional Court |
| 21 Jun 2017 | 364.31 KB Where an acknowledgment of indebtedness is made by a debtor to a creditor, even in without prejudice settlement negotiations, the acknowledgment may be admitted in evidence for the sole purpose of interrupting the running of the prescription period in terms of s 14 of the Prescription Act 68 of 1969. The NDPP v Media 24 Limited & others and HC Van Breda v Media 24 Limited & others[2017] ZASCA 97 · Constitutional law – application by media to broadcast criminal proceedings – tension between the right to freedom of expression and the ope... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 22 Mar 2017 | 206.52 KB Prescription – pension funds – erroneous double payment – substitution of a party after litis contestatio as a result of a cession of the debt does not give rise to a valid plea of prescription – cessionary attains all the rights of cedent – has full locus standi – impoverishment proved on the facts. Moila v City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality[2017] ZASCA 15 · Prescription – pension funds – erroneous double payment – substitution of a party after litis contestatio as a result of a cession of the de... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 25 Jan 2010 | Rikhotso v Premier, Limpopo Province[2021] ZACC 1 · Constitution — section 34 — access to courts Constitution — section 33 — just administrative action | Constitutional Court |
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