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M.F v V.F and Others (2003/22202) [2024] ZAGPJHC 318 (2 April 2024)
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## M.F v V.F and Others (2003/22202) [2024] ZAGPJHC 318 (2 April 2024)
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###### IN THE HIGH COURT OF
SOUTH AFRICA
IN THE HIGH COURT OF
SOUTH AFRICA
(GAUTENG LOCAL
DIVISION, JOHANNESBURG)
CASE NO :
2003/22202
Reportable:
Yes
/ No
Of interest to other
judges:
Yes
/ No
Revised: No
Date: 2 April 2024
In the matter between:
M[...]
F[...] Applicant
and
V[...]
F[...] First
Respondent
F[...] G[...] G[...]
N.O. Second
Respondent
V[...] F[...] (born
G[...]) N.O. Third
Respondent
M[...] P[...] F[...]
N.O. Fourth
Respondent
THE TRUSTEES FOR THE
TIME BEING OF THE
BEKKER TRUST
(IT6078/95) Fourth
Respondent
JUDGEMENT
BISHOP
AJ
:
[1]
The
applicant, Mr M[...] F[...], sought orders holding Mrs
V[...] F[...] in contempt of court, both in her
personal
capacity, as the first respondent, and in her capacity as a trustee
for the time being of the Bekker Trust, as the third
respondent. This
relates to an order of 15 July 2005.
[1]
Mr F[...] sought Mrs F[...]’s committal, both in
her personal and her nominal capacities, for 30 days, or
such
period as I might deem just and equitable,
[2]
alternatively, a one-year suspension of a 30-day committal period on
the condition that Mrs F[...] complies with the aforesaid
order
within fourteen days of the committal order.
[3]
In addition to seeking leave to approach this court on these papers
duly supplemented, should Mrs F[...] not comply with
the
suspended committal order sought,
[4]
costs were sought against Mrs F[...] on an attorney and client
scale, but only in her personal capacity.
[5]
Mrs F[...] has resisted all of the relief sought.
[2]
Mr and
Mrs F[...] were married to one another, until 15 July 2005, when
their marriage was dissolved by court order.
[6]
It is this very order that is at the heart of this application. The
order itself incorporated the terms of a settlement agreement
reached
between Mr F[...], who was the defendant in the divorce action, and
Mrs F[...], who was the plaintiff therein.
[7]
[3]
In his
founding papers, Mr F[...] made special reference to the
provisions of clause 8.3 of the settlement agreement,
emphasising sub-clauses 8.3.1, 8.3.2, 8.3.3, 8.3.8 and 8.3.9 thereof.
[8]
The operation of clause 8.3,
which forms part of that portion of the settlement agreement
concerning ‘VERDELING VAN BATES’,
[9]
and the interrelationship between its sub-clauses is central to the
determination of this application and these portions of the
settlement agreement bear quoting:
[10]
8.3
Onroerende bates
8.3.1 Die
betrokke onroerende eiendom is :-
Erf
2[…] R[…] Uitbreiding 4 (geleë te […]
B[…]3) gereistreer in die naam van die Bekker Trust
(IT6078/95) kragtens Akte van Transport no. T36025/96
8.3.2 Die
eiendom word besit en geokkupeer deur die Eiser en die minderjarige
kinders totdat die eerste van die volgende
gebeurtenisse plaasvind:-
8.3.2.1
Die Eiser te sterwe kom of hetrou
8.3.2.2
Aan die einde van die kalender jaar waarin die jongste kind een en
twintig jaar oud word.
8.3.3 Sodra
die eerste van bostande gebeurtenisse plaasvind word die vaste
eiendom op die ope mark geplaas vir die verkoop
daarvan en is die
Eiser verplig om die eiendom te ontruim vir die betrokke koper.
8.3.3.1
Die Eiser is aanspreeklik vir die koste verbonde aan die
instandhouding
van die vaste eindom.
8.3.4 …
8.3.5 …
8.3.6 …
8.3.7 …
8.3.8 Die
netto opbrengs word dan in gelyke dele tussen die partye verdeel.
8.3.9
Uithoofde van die feit dat die Bekker Trust die geregistreerde
eienaar van die vaste eiendom is word hierdie skikkingsakte
mede
onderteken deur, benewens die Eiser en die Verweerder, ook deur die
trustees van die trust naamlik F[...] Gerhardus
G[...],
en die Eiser en die Verweerde wat ook mede- trustees is wat hierdie
skikkingsakte in hul persoonlike hoedanigheid
en in hul
verteenwoordigende hoedanigheid as trustees van die Bekker Trust is
ten einde te bekragtig, te onderneem en te waarborg
dat die trust
ooreenkomstig die bepalings van hierdie skikkingsakte sal optree. Vir
sover en tot die mate as wat dit nodig mag
wees of word onderneem die
trustees, gesamelik en afsonderlik, om die trustakte te wysig ten
einde uitvoering aan die skikkingsakte
to gee.
[4]
Mr
F[...]’s first point is that Mrs F[...] is alive,
[11]
hence the trigger of her
death, mentioned in clause 8.3.2.1 of the settlement agreement is of
no moment. However, he contends,
with reference to clause 8.3.2.2,
their youngest child turned 21 on 26 September 2017 and
thus the end of the relevant
calendar year was that of 2017.
[12]
This is not in dispute.
[13]
[5]
At
this point in the founding papers, Mr F[...]’s case is
the following:
[14]
5.3 However,
despite various attempts to give effect to the settlement agreement
and sell the property in accordance with
the provisions of the
settlement agreement, the first respondent simply refuses to do so,
refuses to give effect to the settlement
agreement and refuses estate
agents access to the property in order for the property to be
marketed and sold.
5.4 The first
respondent and/or the fifth respondent are refuting the ends of
justice and the first respondent is in contempt
of the court order
beyond any reasonable doubt.
5.5 The contempt
the first respondent and/or fifth respondent are guilty of is of such
a prolonged nature that this honourable
Court should be, while acting
within the course and scope of what is juridically acceptable if it
does not lean to assisting the
first respondent and/or the fifth
respondent in any manner whatsoever and the honourable Court should
not even afford the first
respondent a hearing. The conduct of the
first respondent and/or the fifth respondent is completely
mala
fide
.
[6]
This
position had earlier been expressed by Mr F[...], as follows:
[15]
3.4 Currently the
first respondent is in contempt of the aforementioned court order and
she has deliberately and intentionally
refused (and/or failed) to
comply with the aforementioned court order in the respects set out
herein below.
3.5 The first
respondent’s conduct is
mala fide
and inexcusable. I
have instructed my legal representatives to address various
correspondences to the first respondent’s
legal representatives
in order to persuade her to comply with the provisions of the
aforementioned court order but this was done
in vein.
[7]
Mr
F[...]’s frustration is pulpable, but a party’s
level of frustration is not the test for holding a person in
contempt
of a court order. In this regard,
Fakie
[16]
is clear. An applicant in contempt proceedings may seek two forms of
relief. Firstly, ‘[a] declarator and other appropriate
remedies
remain available to a civil applicant on proof on a balance of
probabilities.’
[17]
Or,
secondly, ‘the applicant must prove the requisites of contempt
(the order; service or notice; non-compliance; and wilfulness
and
mala
fides
)
beyond reasonable doubt.
[18]
‘But, once the applicant has proved the order, service or
notice, and non-compliance, the respondent bears an evidential
burden
in relation to wilfulness and
mala
fides
:
Should the respondent fail to advance evidence that establishes a
reasonable doubt as to whether non-compliance was wilful and
mala
fide
,
contempt will have been established beyond reasonable doubt.’
[19]
[8]
Returning
momentarily to the relief sought by Mr F[...], he has sought
both forms of relief. Prayer 1
[20]
appears to be aimed at declaratory relief, holding Mrs F[...]
in contempt on a balance of probabilities, while prayers 2
and 3
[21]
appear to be couched in the form of the second category of relief,
which may only be granted if proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
[9]
I
address the second category of relief first. It is common cause that
there is an order
[22]
and
that she is aware of the order.
[23]
So much for the first two requirements. The third, however, is that
Mr F[...] must show beyond a reasonable doubt that Mrs
F[...]
has breached the order. The trigger for action was when Mr F[...]’s
and Mrs F[...]’s youngest
child reached 21 years of age,
since the settlement agreement stipulated that, at the end of the
calendar year in which that occurred,
‘word die vaste eiendom
op die ope mark geplaas vir die verkoop daarvan en is die Eiser
verplig om die eiendom te ontruim
vir die betrokke koper’.
[10]
This
clause in my view placed two obligations on two different persons.
Firstly, the trust as the owner of the immovable property
was
required to place the property on the open market for sale. That
obligation would have fallen to all of trustees at the time,
who
would have been required to act jointly in doing so.
[24]
Secondly, the first respondent would be obliged to vacate the
property for the purchaser. The latter requirement cannot arise,
in
my view, before the former has been complied with and a buyer has
indeed been found.
[11]
I
shall return to this aspect shortly, but before doing so, I address
the grounds of opposition put up by Mrs F[...], both
in her
personal capacity and that as a trustee of the Bekker Trust. The
first point was raised
in
limine
,
namely, that the master had not been joined, when relief against Mrs
F[...] in her nominal capacity had been sought.
[25]
Besides alleging that she had received such advice, the aspect was
not developed beyond this in her answering papers, nor did it
feature
in the argument presented on her behalf. It was a point badly taken
in the form it was raised and I reject it for having
no merit.
[12]
The
second point was also raised
in
limine
.
It was that, while Mr F[...] wished to have her held in
contempt in her nominal capacity as a trustee, he had not attached
a
copy to the papers of any resolution of the trustees, which shows
that the trust intended to sell its immovable property concerned,
in
respect of which it could be said that she had failed to provide her
cooperation to sell the immovable property.
[26]
This was not a point
in
limine
,
properly so named, and cannot be adjudicated on the basis that it
was. It is argument going to the absence of evidentiary material
and
cannot be separated from the merits of the matter. It fails as a
point
in
limine
.
[13]
A
further aspect raised by Mrs Bekker was that, although a trustee of
the Bekker Trust, she did not have a copy of the trust deed.
Mrs
F[...] set out in some detail how she has sought a copy of the trust
deed since February 2018, albeit to no avail.
[27]
Her implication being that she has never had a copy thereof. The
fourth aspect of her opposition is that Mr F[...] G[...],
the second respondent, who was joined in his nominal capacity as a
trustee of the Bekker Trust, had passed away on 28 May 2018,
that is,
shortly before this application was launched. This, Mrs F[...]
contends may affect the ability of the trust to take
a binding
decision, depending on the provisions of the trust deed.
[28]
[14]
For
the greatest part of her defence on the merits of this application,
Mrs F[...] contended that she cannot be blamed for
anything she
has failed to do in her capacity as a trustee, until such time as she
has a copy of the trust deed.
[29]
This opposition does not impress me. I shall return to this in
respect of the issue of costs below.
[15]
I said
above
[30]
that I would return
to the third requirement for a contempt order, namely, non-compliance
with the order,
[31]
which Mr
F[...] must prove beyond a reasonable doubt, if any credence is to be
given to his prayers for Mrs F[...]’s
committal, or on a
balance of probabilities, if there is to be a declaratory order that
she is in contempt. On this aspect, Mrs
F[...] has addressed
the issue head-on, as follows:
[32]
Furthermore and most
importantly I wish to refer to paragraph 4.7 which clearly states
that my only obligation is to vacate the
property for the prospective
purchaser. I do not have any other obligation in terms of the Deed of
Settlement and it is clear that
I cannot be held in contempt of Court
as I have never refused to vacate the property for the purchaser
thereof.
[16]
Although
couched more as argument than as a factual assertion, the effect of
this paragraph is factually to place in dispute that
Mrs F[...]
has not complied with the order. There is no basis for me to reject
this factual version,
[33]
which in effect has been given as an answer to no evidence on this
aspect by Mr F[...]. In this regard, I agree with Mrs
F[...]. When regard is had to the provisions of clause 8.3.3 of the
settlement agreement,
[34]
which have been referred to in paragraph 4.7 of Mr F[...]’s
founding affidavit,
[35]
there
is no factual material in the founding papers to make out any case,
not even on a balance of probabilities, that the immovable
property
has been sold and that Mrs F[...] is, therefore, obliged to
move out of the property but has not done so, thereby
establishing
her non-compliance with the order. She cannot, therefore, in her
personal capacity, be found to be in contempt of
the court order.The
third requirement for contempt is absent, even on a balance of
probabilities.
[17]
That
there are no allegations that the property has been sold is no doubt
owing to what the trustees of the Bekker Trust have not
done. Both Mr
F[...] and Mrs F[...] are trustees of this trust, yet
neither has uttered a word of what steps the trust
has taken to place
the immovable property for sale on the open market.
[36]
Mrs F[...] says that ‘[a]s a trustee [she has] not been
invited to attend any meeting in this regard’.
[37]
This exculpatory version is not good enough. She has not said that
she communicated with Mr G[...] before he passed away,
nor that
she has communicated with Mr F[...], to address that the
property must be placed for sale on the open market by
the trust.
Instead, she has been content to sit on her hands and stay in the
immovable property.
[38]
I
have said that I do not think much of her refrain that she has no
copy of the trust deed in her possession.
[39]
If Mr F[...] was uncooperative in this regard, an application
compelling him to produce a copy thereof could have been brought
by
her and she could have sought similar relief against the master.
[40]
I find her position on this point utterly unpersuasive.
[18]
Unfortunately
for Mr F[...], he has misconstrued his legal position and
remedies in this application. He cannot seek to hold
just Mrs
F[...] in contempt as one of the trustees of the Bekker Trust. Either
all of the trustees, which includes Mr F[...],
are in contempt
of the order or none of them are. Since there is no indication that
Mr F[...], as trustee, has attempted
to call a meeting of the
other trustees in order for them to resolve to take steps to place
the immovable property on the open
market for sale, he is every bit
as much to blame for the predicament he finds himself in, as Mrs
F[...] is.
[41]
[19]
It is
apparent that both Mr F[...] and Mrs F[...] have
attempted to obtain a copy of the trust deed from the Master.
[42]
These attempts, on these papers, do not appear to have produced the
desired approach. Clearly the time has come to compel the master
to
produce the trust deed, which neither Mr F[...] nor Mrs F[...]
appear to have in their possession.
[43]
Some effort was expended in both the answering papers
[44]
and the replying papers
[45]
to reason on a balance of probabilities who the income and capital
beneficiaries of the trust might be and whether or not they
might
have accepted the benefits conferred upon them. This in truth is
nothing more than speculation, which must be resolved upon
the
production of the trust deed, which will, no doubt, set out who the
trust income and capital beneficiaries are.
[20]
The
production of the trust deed is, in my view, important to both Mr
F[...] and Mrs F[...], who are both still trustees.
As such,
they will likely have obligations in terms of the trust deed, which
obligations they need to be aware of, in addition
to their
obligations in terms of the Trust Property Control Act,
[46]
such as those prescribed in s 9 thereof. If it appears to either Mr
F[...] or Mrs F[...] that the other is not discharging
their duties as a trustee, for example, by refusing to take steps to
sell the immovable property owned by the Bekker Trust, then
he or she
may be entitled to approach the court in terms of s 19(1) for an
order directing the delinquent trustee to discharge
his or her duty,
or he or she may be entitled to apply to the master in terms of s
20(2)(e) for the delinquent trustee’s
removal, or he or she may
be entitled to apply to court in terms of s 20(1) for the such
removal.
[21]
A contempt application in the present
circumstances, however, cannot succeed. There is simply no case on
these papers to hold Mrs
F[...] in contempt, either on a
balance of probabilities for purposes of granting a declaratory
order, or beyond a reasonable
doubt for purposes of a committal
order.
[22]
While
I am obliged to adjudicate the disputes on the papers as the parties
have formulated them,
[47]
I
am not constrained when passing comment on what is clearly at play
between Mr F[...] and Mrs F[...], since this affects,
along with other considerations, the exercise of my discretion on
costs. It clearly suits Mrs F[...] for the
status
quo
to
remain as long as possible,
[48]
since she has the use of the immovable property and only upon its
sale will the nett proceeds need to be split between her and
Mr
F[...],
[49]
who says he
is unemployed.
[50]
[23]
Mrs F[...] is entitled to meet only the case
that is put up, which she has done, but the intention behind the
settlement agreement
is clear. The immovable property was to serve as
the home for Mr F[...]’s and Mrs F[...]’s
children until
they had grown up. This has happened. Mr F[...]
delayed receipt of his half-share of the nett proceeds of the sale of
the
property, until his children had grown up. It is time for the
trustees of the Bekker Trust, who at present appear to be only Mr
F[...] and Mrs F[...], to sell the immovable property and
divide the nett proceeds. Hopefully, without further court
intervention.
If this does not happen, Mrs F[...] potentially
stands to lose a significant portion of her half-share of the nett
proceeds,
if a costs order is granted against her in Mr F[...]’s
favour in future litigation. This would be unfortunate, given
their
respective ages, if the identity numbers in the papers are correct,
since both are close to retirement age and the proceeds
of the sale
would doubtlessly serve to sustain them in the future.
[24]
Although
Mr F[...] has sought some very loosely formulated relief, such
as ‘further and alternative conditions as the
honourable Court
may direct’
[51]
and
‘further and/or alternative relief’,
[52]
these formulations are too vague to sustain the granting of any
specific relief.
[25]
Mr
F[...] has failed to establish the third requirement for
contempt, that of Mrs F[...]’s non-compliance with
the
order. The application must fail. Mrs F[...] has been
substantially successful in her opposition and that would ordinarily
entitle her to her costs. But, I have decided not to award them to
her. Apart from her uncooperative behaviour, as a trustee, in
failing
to arrange with the other trustee, Mr F[...], for the immovable
property to be placed on the open market so that
it can be sold, Mrs
F[...] raised two unsuccessful points
in
limine
,
that Mr G[...] had passed away, which seems irrelevant to what
is actually in dispute, and that she requires a copy of the
trust
deed but has done nothing beyond writing to the master to obtain one.
She squarely raised her defence in a single paragraph.
[53]
For no explicable reason, she duplicated the attachments to the
founding affidavit by attaching them to her answering affidavit,
[54]
which only served to run up the costs unnecessarily. These are
grounds, sufficient in my view, to exercise my discretion against
awarding Mrs F[...] her costs in this application and to
direct, instead, that there shall be no order as to costs, thereby
obliging each party to bear their own costs.
[26]
In my view, all factors considered, it is in the
interests of justice to make the following order:
1.
the application is dismissed; and
2.
there shall be no order as to costs.
ANTHONY BISHOP
Acting Judge of the High
Court
Johannesburg
Heard
:
2 November 2022
Attorneys for the
applicant : Waldick
Inc (formerly in these
proceedings
Waldick Jansen
van
Rensburg Inc)
Counsel for the applicant
: Mr J
Sullivan (heads of argument having
been prepared
by
Mr M Bester)
Attorneys for the first
and third
respondents
: Blake
Bester, De Wet & Jordaan Inc
Counsel for the first
defendant : Mr W de Beer
[1]
CaseLines
001-2, par 1 (NoM)
[2]
CaseLines
001-2, par 2 (NoM)
[3]
CaseLines
001-2, par 3 (NoM)
[4]
CaseLines
001-3, par 5 (NoM)
[5]
CaseLines
001-3, par 6 (NoM)
[6]
CaseLines
001-7, par 2.1 (FA); 001-14 (annexure
FA1
to
the FA)
[7]
CaseLines
001-9, par 3.3 (FA); 001-14, par 2 (annexure
FA1
to
the FA); see also CaseLines 001-10, par 4.3 (FA), as read with
CaseLines 003.10, par 29.2 (AA)
[8]
CaseLines
001-10, par 4.4 to 001-11, par 4.10 (FA)
[9]
CaseLines
001-19, par 8 (annexure
FA2
to
the FA)
[10]
CaseLines
001-20 to 001-23, par 8.3 (annexure
FA2
to
the FA)
[11]
CaseLines
001-11, par 5.1 (FA)
[12]
CaseLines
001-11 to 001-12, par 5.2 (FA)
[13]
CaseLines
003-10, par 32 (AA)
[14]
CaseLines
001-12, par 5.3 to 5.5 (FA)
[15]
CaseLines
001-9, par 3.4 to 3.5 (FA)
[16]
Fakie
N.O. v CCII Systems (Pty) Ltd
2006
(4) SA 326 (SCA)
[17]
Fakie
,
par 42(e)
[18]
Fakie
,
par 42(c)
[19]
Fakie
,
par 42(d)
[20]
CaseLines
001-2, par 1 (NoM)
[21]
CaseLines
001-2, par 2 and 3 (NoM)
[22]
CaseLines
001-7, par 2.1, read with 001-9, par 3.2 (FA); CaseLines 003-9, par
25, read with 003-9, par 26 (AA)
[23]
CaseLines
001-9 to 001-10, par 4.1 to 4.2 (FA); CaseLines 003-9 to 003-10, par
40 and 003-10, par 29.1 to 29.2 (AA)
[24]
See
Land
and Agricultural Bank of South Africa v Parker and Others
2005
(2) SA 77
(SCA), par 15, where it was held:
It
is a fundamental rule of trust law, which this Court recently
restated in
Nieuwoudt and Another
NNO v Vrystaat Mielies (Edms) Bpk
[2004
(3) SA 486
(SCA), par 16] that in the absence of contrary provision
in the trust deed the trustees must act jointly if the trust estate
is to be bound by their acts. The rule derives from the nature of
the trustees' joint ownership of the trust property. Since co-owners
must act jointly, trustees must also act jointly. Professor Tony
Honoré's authoritative historical exposition has shown
that
the joint action requirement was already being enforced as early as
1848. It has thus formed the basis of trust law in this
country for
well over a century and half.
[25]
CaseLines
003-5, par 5 to 6 (AA); compare CaseLines 004-5, par 6.2 (RA)
[26]
CaseLines
003-5, par 7 to 003-6, par 9 (AA); compare CaseLines 004-6,
par 7 (RA)
[27]
CaseLines
003-7, par 14 to 003-8, par 19 and 003-8, par 21 (AA)
[28]
CaseLines
003-8, par 22; see also 003-10 to 003-11, par 33 (AA)
[29]
CaseLines
003-9 to 003-11, par 27 to 29, 30, 29.2, 32 and 34 (AA)
[30]
See
paragraph 11 above.
[31]
See
paragraph 7 above.
[32]
CaseLines
003-10, par 29.3 (AA)
[33]
See
Plascon-Evans
Paints Ltd v van Riebeeck Paints (Pty) Ltd
[1984] ZASCA 51
;
1984
(3) SA 623
(A), 635C, which is authority for a court to reject a
respondent’s version, where it is ‘so far-fetched or
clearly
untenable’. See also
National
Director of Public Prosecutions v Zuma
[2009] ZASCA 1
;
2009
(2) SA 277
(SCA), par 26, which is authority, in addition to the
grounds mention in
Plascon-Evans
,
for a court to reject a respondent’s version for being
‘palpably implausible’.
[34]
See
paragraph 3 above.
[35]
CaseLines
001-10, par 4.7 (AA)
[36]
Mr
Ferreira sending an estate agent to the immovable property is not
the action of the Bekker Trust but his personally.
[37]
CaseLines
003-10, par 33 (AA)
[38]
CaseLines
003-5, par 1 (AA)
[39]
See
paragraph 14 above.
[40]
See
paragraph 19 below and, particularly, footnote 43 thereto.
[41]
The
letters written to Mrs Ferreira’s attorneys in the divorce
action (see for example, CaseLines 001-37 – 001-38
(annexure
FA3
to
the FA)), Mrs Ferreira (see for example, CaseLines 001-40 to 001-41
(annexure
FA4
to
the FA) and Mrs Ferreira’s litigation attorneys (see for
example, CaseLines 001-44 to 001-46 (annexure
FA3
to
the FA); CaseLines 001-47 to 001-48 (annexure
FA3
to
the FA); CaseLines 001-49 to 001-50 (annexure
FA3
to
the FA); CaseLines 001-53 to 001-54 (annexure
FA3
to
the FA)) do not constitute requests to the other trustees to sell
the property.
In
passing, I point out that it is not sufficient for a litigant to
employ phrases such as ‘[a]ll annexures to this founding
affidavit is incorporated herein by way of reference’ (see
CaseLines 001-7, par 1.4 (FA)), nor is it sufficient for a litigant
to attach a series of letters exchanged between parties without
directing the opposing party’s attention to which portion
of
which of the letters it relies upon (see CaseLines 001-9, par
3.6(FA)). In this regard, see
Swissborough
Diamond Mines (Pty) Ltd and Others v Government of the Republic of
South Africa and Others
1999 (2)
SA 279
(T), 324G-H. It is not for the opposing party, or a court, to
scratch through such annexures in the hope that the aspect being
relied upon might be guessed by the opposing party or the court. A
party is under an obligation to make out its case clearly
in its
papers. See
Swissborough
,
323G-I. This applies to both an applicant and a respondent. See
Swissborough
,
323J-324D.
[42]
CaseLines
003-15 to 003-18 (annexure
VF2
to
the AA)
[43]
See
in this regard, the provisions of s 18 of the Trust Property Control
Act 57 of 1988.
[44]
CaseLines
003-7 to 003-8, par 19 (AA)
[45]
CaseLines
004-9, par 15.2 (RA)
[46]
Act
57 of 1988
[47]
Swissborough
,
323G. See also
MEC
for Education, Gauteng Province and Others v Governing Body, Rivonia
Primary School and Others
2013
(6) SA 582
CC, par 100
This was a practical
approach, although not the correct legal approach.
[49]
See
clause 8.3.8 of the settlement agreement (CaseLines 001-22, cl 8.3.8
(annexure
FA2
to
the FA)
[50]
CaseLines
004-3, par 1.1 (AA)
[51]
CaseLines
001-2, par 4 (NoM)
[52]
CaseLines
001-3, par 7 (NoM)
[53]
See
CaseLines 003-10, par 29.3 (AA)
[54]
Compare
CaseLines 001-40 to 001-41 with CaseLines 003-13 to 003-14;
CaseLines 001 42 to 001-43 with CaseLines 003-15 to 16;
CaseLines 001-44 to 001-46 with CaseLines 003-22 to 003-24;
CaseLines 001-49 to 001-50 with CaseLines 003-25 to 003-26;
CaseLines
001-51 to 001-52 with CaseLines 003-27 to 003-28.
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