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Back to Christ Assembly Church v Back to Christ Assembly and Another [2023] ZAGPPHC 158; 39595/21 (13 March 2023)
High Court of South Africa (Gauteng Division, Pretoria)
13 March 2023
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REPUBLIC
OF SOUTH AFRICA
IN
THE HIGH COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA
GAUTENG
DIVISION
, PRETORIA
Case
No: 39595/21
REPORTABLE:
YES
OF
INTEREST TO OTHER JUDGES: NO
REVISED
13
March 2023
In
the matter between:
BACK
TO CHRIST ASSEMBLY CHURCH
Applicant
And
BACK
TO CHRIST ASSEMBLY
First
Respondent
THE
REGISTRAR OF DEEDS, PRETORIA
Second
Respondent
JUDGMENT
SK
HASSIM AJ
INTRODUCTION
1.
Section
4(1)(b) of the Deeds Registries Act, Act No 47 of 1937 (“
the
Act
”)
empowers the Registrar of Deeds (“
the
Registrar”)
to
rectify any deed or any other document registered or filed in the
deeds registry where he
[1]
is of the opinion that it is necessary to do so.
2.
This application stems from an endorsement on a deed of transfer
made
by the Registrar under section 4(1)(b) of the Act. It engages whether
the Registrar acted within the scope of the power conferred
on him by
section 4(1)(b) of the Act when he made an endorsement on a deed of
transfer. The provisions of section 4(1) (b) relevant
to this
application read as follows:
“
4
Powers of
registrar
(1)
Each registrar shall have power-
(b)
whenever it is in his opinion necessary or desirable to rectify in
any deed or other document, registered or filed in his registry,
an
error in the name or the description of any person or property
mentioned therein, or in the conditions affecting any such property
to rectify the error: Provided that-
(i)
every person appearing from the deed or other document to be
interested in the
rectification has consented thereto in writing;
(ii)
if any such person refuse to consent thereto the rectification may be
made on the
authority of an order of Court;
(iii)
if the error is common to two or more deeds or other documents,
including any register
in his or her registry, the error shall be
rectified in all those deeds or other documents, unless the
registrar, on good cause
shown, directs otherwise;
(iv)
no such rectification shall be made if it would have the effect of
transferring any right;…”
3.
At the risk
of stating the obvious, and in my view, the word “rectification”
connotes an error that stands to be corrected
in the case of a
document through an alteration. The correction of the error would
constitute a rectification
[2]
thereof. In my opinion, if there is no error, then the change cannot
properly be labelled a rectification as contemplated in section
4(1)
of the Act, but rather an alteration.
4.
It is common cause that the applicant (i) was established as
a church
named “Back to Christ Assembly Church” under a
Constitution, signed and dated 16 January 1985; (ii) On 24
September
1986, the Department of Co-Operation and Development issued to the
applicant a certificate of Permission to Occupy the
property, Erf
[....] Soshanguve-L Township; (iii) On 6 January 2011, the Department
of Co-operation and Development registered
the applicant as a
non-profit organization with registration no. 085-817-NPO in terms of
the Non-Profit Organisations Act, Act
No 71 of 1997.
5.
The
first respondent,
Back
to Christ Assembly (NPC)
(
“
the
respondent
”
)
was
registered on 19 November 2003 under the Companies Act, Act No 61 of
1973.
It is a non-profit company
envisaged
in the Companies Act, Act No 71 of 2008.
6.
Erf [....] Soshanguve-L Township (“
the property
”)
was registered in the deeds registry on 10 November 2011 under Deed
of Transfer [....](“
the Deed
”). The transferee is
Back to Christ Assembly Church (i.e., the applicant). The
causa
for the registration is recorded as a sale on 17 June 1999 from the
Gauteng Provincial Department to “Back to Christ Assembly
Church” (i.e., the applicant) for a purchase consideration of
R912.50.
7.
On 9
February 2015, the registration number allocated to the applicant
when it was registered as a non-profit organisation on 6
January 2011
was inserted in the Deed in terms of section 4(1)(b) by an
endorsement on the Deed.
[3]
8.
On or about 6 November 2018, the respondent applied to the Registrar
in terms of section 4(1)(b) of the Act “
for the
rectification of the name and registration number of the company Back
to Christ Assembly [on the deed of transfer]
” (“
the
respondent’s rectification application”
). The
application which took the form of an affidavit was signed by Mr
Josiah Raphefo Ntswelengwe, in his capacity as a director
of the
respondent. Mr Ntswelengwe, alleged the following in support of the
application:
“
1.
… the correct name of the company is Back to Christ Assembly
And registration number 2003/029187/08.
2.
…the name of Back to Christ Assembly appears incorrectly as
BACK TO CHRIST ASSEMBLY
CHURCH on page 2 and 3 of Deed of Transfer
Number [....] … The registration number should read correctly
as 2003/ 029187/08
and not 085–817– MPO as endorsed
on page 3 of Deed of Transfer [....].
3.
…the name and registration number of the company should read
as Back to Christ Assembly,
Registration Number 2003/09187/08 in the
said Deed of Transfer.
4.
…we presume the mistake occurred in the preparing of the
aforementioned
Deeds.
5.
This correction will not have the effect of the [sic] transferring of
any right…
6.
…”
9.
An application appears to simultaneously have been made by the
respondent in terms of regulation 68 of the regulations made under
the Act for a certified copy of the Deed.
10.
On 19 November 2018 the Registrar, presumably in response to the
respondent’s
rectification application endorsed the Deed by the
insertion of a page numbered “4” which was to constitute
an annexure
to the Deed. The endorsement is reproduced hereunder:
PAGE
4
ANNEXURE
TO [....]
TRANSFEREE’S
D
ESCRIPTION
WYSIG KRAGTENS ART
4(1)(b)
AMENDED IN TERMS
VAN WET 47 VAN 1937
TE LEES
SECTION 4(1)(b) OF ACT 47 OF 1937
TO READ
BACK TO CHRIST
[sic] ASSEMLY
Registration
Number: 2003/029187/08
BC
000076888/2018
________________sgd_______________
REGISTRATEUR/REGISTRAR
DATE
19 11 18
11.
The applicant seeks to set aside this endorsement on the Deed which
enured the
respondent and prejudiced the applicant who held title to
the property thereunder.
12.
This application is not concerned with whether the applicant church
is a faction
that broke away from the respondent church or vice
versa. Neither their relationship nor their disputes have any bearing
on this
application.
13.
Nor is it about who the owner of the immovable property is, or should
be, and
a fortiori
in whose name it should be registered. The
issue is narrower. Did the Registrar exceed the power conferred by
section 4(1)(b)(ii)
when he altered the name and identification
particulars of the transferee by endorsing the Deed. The endorsement
was presumably
done in the belief that the name of the transferee was
incorrectly recorded on the Deed, and it therefore had to be
rectified.
Stated differently, the issue is whether the prerequisites
for the Registrar to exercise the power conferred by section 4(1) (b)
(ii) of the Act were met when the Registrar endorsed the Deed.
14.
Before delving into the issues for determination it is convenient to
refer to
the relief claimed. The following prayers are sought in the
notice of motion:
“
1.
Setting aside the endorsement made by the second respondent on 19
November 2019 in terms of section 4(1)(b)
of the Deeds Registry Act
47 of 1937 to Deed of Transfer [....] which transferred the
Soshanguve property from the name of the
applicant to the name of the
first respondent (hereinafter referred to as the “endorsement”).
2.
Directing the second respondent to remove the endorsement from the
title deed [....]
3.
The first respondent is ordered to deliver the said Deed of Transfer
to the Registrar of
Deeds, to note and effect the cancellation of the
endorsement in the records of the Deeds Office in Pretoria within 7
days of service
of the Court Order on the first respondent or its
attorney of record; and
4.
The first respondent makes payment of the costs on the scale as
between attorney and client.”
15.
Mr Mukwevho who appeared on behalf of the respondent, argued that any
relief
the applicant seeks must be located in the Act. He submitted
that the applicant’s remedy was an application contemplated in
section 4(1)(b)(ii) of the Act. However, that section, so the
argument goes is not available to the applicant because it had failed
to request the respondent to concede to the reversion to the
status
quo
prior to the endorsement on 19 November 2018. I understood
the effect of his argument to be that this application is premature
because the respondent’s consent to the relief had not been
sought and refused.
THE
ISSUES
16.
There are four main issues in this application: (i) should the
application have
been brought in terms of section 4(1)(b) (ii)? (ii)
was there an error in the name or the description of the transferee
in the
Deed? If there was no error,
cadit questio
; the
application must succeed; (iii) If there was an error, whether it
appeared from the Deed that there may be a person who may
have an
interest in the rectification of the error? and (iv) If so, whether
that person had consented in writing to the rectification
of the
error? If the person with an interest had not consented to the
rectification of the error or a court had not authorised
it, then
too, the application must succeed.
The
scope of the Registrar’s power in terms of section 4(1)(b)
17.
The power conferred on the Registrar by section 4(1)(b) can have
devastating
consequences. It empowers the Registrar to amend or alter
a deed to rectify it. This can, and may, have devastating
consequences
amongst others, depriving the owner of real rights. The
Registrar does not have the power to do things which determine the
rights
of parties. Section 4(1)(b)(iv) makes this clear.
18.
Even in cases where there is an error in the name or description of a
person
or property on a deed, the Registrar is not at large to
rectify the error. Section 4(1)(b) of the Act limits the Registrar’s
power to rectify deeds to those cases where a deed of transfer
contains an error in the name, or the description of any person
mentioned therein. In my view the Registrar may rectify a deed where
there is no dispute that a deed falls to be rectified. Hence,
the
requirement of written consent which would constitute consensual
authority to the Registrar to rectify a deed.
19.
If a person interested in the rectification of the deed (“
an
interested person
”) appears from a deed, the Registrar
power to rectify the error in a deed is further circumscribed. The
Registrar may exercise
his power to rectify an error in the name or
description of the property in a deed if the interested party has
consented in writing
to the rectification of the error. The written
consent of an interested person and, in its absence, a court order is
a jurisdictional
fact for the exercise of the Registrar’s
power. If the interested person refuses to consent to the
rectification, there is
no consensual authority and the Register
cannot rectify the deed, unless the court has authorised him to do
so. The court order
would substitute the written consent.
Is
this an application in terms of section 4(1)(b)(ii) of the Act for
the Registrar to be authorised to rectify the Deed?
20.
The
respondent misconstrues the object and import of section 4(1)(ii),
and the circumstances under which it applies. Section 4(1)(ii)
cannot
be read in isolation. Section 4 defines the ambit of the Registrar’s
powers. One of the powers conferred on the Registrar
is to rectify
deeds of transfer where there is an error in the name or description
of a person or property therein. This power
can only be exercised if
“every person appearing from the deed or other document to be
interested in the rectification has
consented thereto in writing”.
If such person has not consented, the Registrar cannot rectify the
error unless he is authorised
by a court to do so. The Act does not
identify the person who may or must apply to the court for the
authorisation. The Registrar
can apply
[4]
because he is the person who requires the authority. However, it is
highly unlikely that the Registrar would apply for authorisation.
The
person who wants a deed to be rectified would most likely apply for
the rectification to the Registrar. If there appears from
the deed to
be a person interested in the rectification the applicant would most
likely submit the written consent of such person
to the
rectification. Where the person who appears from a deed to be
interested in the rectification, refuses to consent thereto
the
Registrar cannot rectify the deed. And the person who applied for the
rectification would have to obtain an order authorising
the Registrar
the deed. In my opinion, the court order stands in the stead of the
written consent.
21.
I cannot find a provision in the Act that an application authorising
the Registrar
to rectify a deed is subject to consent having been
sought and refused. The Act dispenses with the need for an order
authorising
the Registrar to rectify where consent has been obtained
but does not make a request for consent and the refusal thereof a
condition
to an application to authorise the Registrar to rectify an
error on a deed. In my view, it was not necessary for the applicant
to have sought consent (and the respondent having refused consent) to
the relief claimed before it could bring an application.
22.
To summarise the point: the written consent of a person appearing
from a deed
to be interested in the rectification is a
sine qua
non
for the Registrar to recetify a Deed. A request for, and
refusal of, consent is not a
sine qua
to an application
authorising the Registrar to rectify a deed in the exercise of its
powers under section 492) of the Act.
23.
There is however a more obvious reason why the applicant did not have
to seek
the respondent’s consent; the applicant is not applying
for an order authorising the Registrar be to rectify an error on the
Deed. The applicant is applying to undo the rectification of the Deed
on the basis that there was no
causa
for it because (i) there
was no error on the Deed; and (ii) the applicant appeared from the
Deed to be interested in the rectification
of the Deed and it had not
consented to the rectification. I cannot fault the type, or form, of
the relief sought by the applicant.
Was
there an error in the Deed of the sort contemplated in section
4(1)(b)?
24.
The respondent’s name is strikingly similar to the applicant’s
name.
The difference lies in the omission of the word “Church”
from the respondent’s name. While the applicant and respondent
have similar names, they are separate entities. The applicant is an
unincorporated association and therefore not a juristic person.
The
respondent on the other hand is a juristic person incorporated under
the Companies Act. There was no error in the name or description
of
the applicant. The applicant’s name is “Back to Christ
Assembly Church”. It has the word “Church”
as the
last word in its name. Its name is not “Back to Christ
Assembly”. That is the respondent’s name.
25.
The form of the respondent’s registration number is easily
recognisable
as a registration number allocated to a company,
regardless of whether it was incorporated under the Companies Act,
1973 or the
Companies Act, 2008
. The form of the applicant’s
registration number on the other hand is not easily recognisable, it
is a number issued to a
non-profit organisation in terms of the
Non-Profit Organisations Act, Act No 71 of 1997.
26.
There was no error in the transferee’s name or description
which fell
to be rectified in terms of section 4(1)(b)(ii). The
applicant’s name and description were correctly reflected on
the Deed;
there were simply no errors to rectify, let alone errors
that were necessary to rectify.
27.
The Registrar could not have invoked his section 4(1)(b) power. This
power would
only have been activated if there was an error in the
name and description of the transferee, namely the applicant
in
casu
. And there was none.
If
there was an error, was the Registrar empowered to rectify the Deed?
28.
Lest I have erred in my finding that there was no error in the
applicant’s
name or description, I consider whether it was
competent for the Registrar to have acted in terms of section
4(1)(b).
29.
I do not understand the respondent’s case to be that the
applicant would
not constitute an interested person contemplated in
section 4(1)(i).
30.
It speaks for itself that a transferee of immovable property will be
affected
by a change on a deed to its name and an identification
number such as registration number, or an identity number of a
natural
person. This stems from firstly, what the registration of a
real right in the Registry of Deeds seeks to achieve and secondly,
what the legal effect of the registration of a real right is.
31.
Hoexter JA
found in
Frye’s
(Pty) Ltd v Ries
[5]
that (i) registration is
intended to protect the real rights of those persons in whose names
such rights are registered in the
Deeds Office; (ii) the real
function of registration is the protection of the persons in whose
names real rights have been registered;
and (iii) such rights are
maintainable against the whole world.
[6]
And that registration has by law the same effect as express
notification to every person in the world of the owner’s
ownership
of the real right.
[7]
In this regard he held:
“
As
far as the effect of registration is concerned, there is no doubt
that the ownership of a real right is adequately protected
by its
registration in the Deeds Office. Indeed the system of land
registration was evolved for the very purpose of ensuring that
there
should not be any doubt as to the ownership of the persons in whose
names real rights are registered. Theoretically no doubt
the act of
registration is regarded as notice to all the world of the ownership
of the real right which is registered. That merely
means that the
person in whose name a real right is registered can prove his
ownership by producing the registered deed. Generally
speaking, no
person can successfully attack the right of ownership duly and
properly registered in the Deeds Office. If the registered
owner
asserts his right of ownership against a particular person he is
entitled to do so, not because that person is deemed to
know that he
is the owner, but because he is in fact the owner by virtue of the
registration of his right of ownership
.”
[8]
32.
A change to a transferee’s name on a deed affects the
transferee’s
ownership of the real right. In this case, the
correction of a purported error in the name of the transferee on the
Deed from the
applicant, as transferee, to the respondent, as
transferee, would mean that the mere production by the respondent of
the Deed after
its “rectification” on 19 November 2018
would constitute proof of its ownership of the property and disprove
the applicant’s
ownership. The applicant has been deprived real
rights because of the rectification to the Deed by the Registrar.
This in my view
renders a transferee “a person appearing from
the deed to be interested in the rectification” as contemplated
in section
4(1)(b) of the Act. Accordingly, the Registrar could only
invoke the power to rectify an error on the Deed if the applicant had
consented thereto in writing.
33.
It is common cause that not only did the applicant not consent to the
rectification
of any error; but also, that it was never requested to
do so. The applicant came to know of the endorsement two years after
it
had been made when it was revealed by the respondent in an urgent
application brought by it in 2020 against the applicant.
34.
It is also common cause that there was no court order authorising the
Registrar
to rectify the Deed. The jurisdictional requirement to the
Registrar’s power was therefore lacking. The Registrar
accordingly
exceeded his powers when he rectified the Deed.
35.
There is another reason why the Registrar’s power was not
activated. What
Mr Ntswelengwe sought to do was to alter the identity
of the transferee. That falls beyond what section 4(1)(b) empowers
the Registrar
to do.
36.
The Registrar may under no circumstances whatsoever rectify an error
in the
name, or the description of a person or property mentioned in
a deed, if the effect of a rectification under section 4(1)(b) would
result in one person losing a right and another acquiring that right.
This would have the effect of a right having been transferred.
In
such circumstances, section 4(1)(b)(iv) withdraws the Registrar’s
power in its totality to rectify an error in the name,
or the
description of a person or property mentioned in a deed.
37.
According to the Deed, the transferee is a person named “BACK
TO CHRIST
ASSEMBLY CHURCH”, a non-juristic person the applicant
in this application. The applicant is a separate legal entity from
the defendant, Back to Christ Assembly a non-profit company
registered in terms of the
Companies Act..
>
38.
The applicant is an unincorporated association while the respondent
is an incorporated
association incorporated under the Companies Act,
1973.
39.
The property was registered in the name of a non-juristic person. The
respondent,
a juristic person applied for the property to be
registered in its name. What the respondent applied for was not a
correction of
the name of the transferee but rather a change in the
identity of the transferee. The effect in my view was the transfer of
rights
contrary to section 4(1)(b)(iv) of the Act.
40.
One would have expected the Registrar to have carefully considered
whether the
applicant and the respondent were the same entity or
person. Section 3(1)(b) of the Act imposes upon the Registrar an
obligation
to “
examine all deeds or other
documents submitted to him for execution or registration, and after
examination reject any such deed
or other document the execution or
registration of which is not permitted by this Act…”. It
appears to me that the
Registrar failed in this duty. Had the
Registrar discharged its duty diligently it would have been seen that
the
applicant and respondent were not the same person or
entity.
41.
I am
also
of the
view that this is the type of matter where the Registrar should have
filed a report in terms of section 97 of the Act.
COSTS
42.
The
remaining
issue
is costs. The applicant seeks punitive costs. The respondent’s
conduct in the rectification of the Deed by the Registrar
is
disconcerting to say the least. The respondent knew that the
applicant and respondent churches were different. In fact, they
both
accused the other of being a breakaway faction.
43.
There
was litigation in which there were accusations of passing off. An
order was granted by the learned judge Phatudi J on 6 November
2015
[9]
in an action
instituted
against
the respondent by the applicant and amongst others Mr Z Msipha, who
contends that he is the President of the applicant,
. The order was
rescinded by the learned judge Tolmay J in terms of rule 42 at the
instance of the applicant on 26 July 2016. The
respondent has brought
an application to rescind the order of Tolmay J. The application is
pending.
44.
During December 2020 the respondent brought an
urgent application to interdict the applicant from obtaining transfer
of a property
identified as the “
Rooidag
Property
” to which both parties
seemed to have asserted a right of ownership. Though the respondent’s
application was struck
from the roll for want of urgency the
averments therein are relevant to the question of costs.
45.
Mr Ntswelengwe deposed to the founding affidavit in the urgent
application.
He refers there to the endorsement on the Deed of the
property which forms the subject of this application. There are two
significant averments in that founding affidavit.
One acknowledges that the applicant and respondent are separate
organisations,
but both “
function
”
from the property. The other that the respondent (in this
application) not does know how it came about that the applicant
is
reflected as the owner on the endorsement made on 9 February 2015 and
the respondent on the endorsement made on 19 November
2018. The
averments are the following:
“
6.46
…I annex hereto … a copy of the Title Deed of the
Soshanguve property on which allegedly both organisations function,
being the [....] [sic] Block I, Soshanguve, Pretoria, Gauteng
Province.
6.47
[Back to Christ Assembly] and [Back to
Christ Assembly Church] are alleged owners of [the Soshanguve]
property as can be seen with
the naked eye on the endorsement pages,
with one page showing the present applicant [Back to Christ Assembly]
as owner with its
CIPC registration number and the first respondent
[Back to Christ Assembly Church] on another endorsement page with its
NGO number
6.48
How the above happened, I have no knowledge of.”
46.
The deponent knows how it came about that both the applicant and
respondent
were reflected as the owner of the property at different
times. But more importantly he recognised that the two organisations
were
separate, both laying claim to immovable property and both
operating from the same immovable property, namely the property which
is the subject matter of this application.
47.
In view of this, the following statements to the Registrar in the
affidavit
to support the rectification of the Deed, were at best for
the respondent, reckless and misleading:
“
4.
We presume the mistake occurred in the preparing of the
aforementioned Deeds.
5.
This correction will not have the effect of the [sic] transferring of
any right…”.
48.
The deponent knew that the so-called error was not inadvertent nor
that someone
had made an error when preparing the Deed. It appears to
me that the description of the transferee was deliberate. If it had
been
inadvertent, one would have expected it to have been corrected
when the first endorsement was made, namely the endorsement on 9
February 2015.
49.
I have considered whether the order by Phatudi J, although rescinded,
could
have formed the basis for the respondent’s application to
the Registrar. This considering that the respondent’s case
is
that it came to know of the order having been rescinded at the time
of the urgent application in December 2020.
50.
On a benevolent approach, it could be argued that if the respondent
came to
know of the rescission of Phatudi J’s order only after
the endorsement had been made by the Registrar, then the respondent’s
conduct may have been excusable even though the order did not
authorise the registration of the Property in the respondent’s
name. The respondent’s officials may have believed that the
order for the return of the title deed in terms of paragraph
2 of the
order by Phatudi J gave the respondent the right to have the Deed
registered in its name. However, the affidavit to the
Registrar makes
no reference to the order. The order was not the reason for seeking
rectification. Taking the respondent’s
aforesaid conduct into
account as well as its steadfast opposition to this application, I am
of the view that a punitive costs
order is warranted in the
circumstances.
ORDER
In
the result I make the following order:
1.
The endorsement by the Registrar of Deeds, Pretoria on 19 November
2019 on Deed
of Transfer [....] in terms of section 4(1)(b) of the
Deeds Registry Act 47 of 1937 is set aside, and the Registrar of
Deeds, Pretoria
must do all things necessary to ensure that the
applicant is reflected in all relevant deeds and documents as the
transferee of
Erf [....] Soshanguve-L Township transferred to it by
the Gauteng Provincial Department.
2.
The Registrar of Deeds, Pretoria must forthwith note the setting
aside of the
aforementioned endorsement in the relevant records in
the Deeds Registry.
3.
The first respondent must deliver the Deed of Transfer [....] to the
Registrar
of Deeds, Pretoria within seven (7) days of the service of
this order on the first respondent or its attorney of record.
4.
The Registrar of Deeds, Pretoria must within 7 days of the Deed of
Transfer being
delivered to it, cancel the endorsement (referred to
in paragraph 1 above) on Deed of Transfer [....] and on any other
document
in the Deeds Registry and must additionally do all things
necessary to give effect to the order in paragraph 1 above.
5.
The first respondent is to pay the costs of this application on the
scale as
between attorney and client.
S K HASSIM AJ
Acting Judge: Gauteng
Division, Pretoria
(electronic
signature appended)
13 March 2023
Date
of hearing:
6 March 2023
Appearances:
Plaintiff:
Adv T Lipshitz
Defendant:
Adv V Mukwevho
This
judgement was prepared and authored by the Judge whose name is
reflected and is handed down electronically by circulation to
the
plaintiff’s legal representatives by email and by uploading it
to the electronic file of this matter on CaseLines. The
date for
hand-down is deemed to be 13 March 2023.
[1]
I
use the masculine form for ease of reference only.
[2]
Defined
in the
Shorter
Oxford English Dictionary
as “
correction
of error; a setting straight or right; amendment, improvement,
correction
.”
[3]
The
endorsement appears on page 3 of the Deed which is an annexure to
the Deed.
[4]
Subject to all interested persons being notified of the
application.
[5]
1957
(3) SA 575 (A).
[6]
At 583 E-G.
[7]
584H.
[8]
582A-C.
[9]
It
reads as follows:
“
1.
The Commissioner of Companies and Intellectual Property Commission
[sic] (CPRO) to re-register, in accordance with the Laws
the name
Back to Christ Church Assembly with registration number M2003029187.
2. Mr Z Msipa
and/or anyone in possession of the original Title deed of site L745
Soshanguve is ordered to hand the Title
deed to the executive
council of the church, Back to Christ Assembly.
3.
The keys to the church building situated at L745 Soshanguve be held
by Mr MP Kgasago and Ms Thandi Sibiya who shall be jointly and
severally be responsible for their safe-keeping.
4.
Any member of
the Back to Christ Assembly be afforded a right
to access the church
building at any reasonable time with due notice to the key holders
and/or the executive.”
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