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Riches and Beyond (Pty) Ltd and Others v Ramela and Others (2021/40544) [2022] ZAGPJHC 32 (21 January 2022)
High Court of South Africa (Gauteng Division, Johannesburg)
14 September 2021
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## Riches and Beyond (Pty) Ltd and Others v Ramela and Others (2021/40544) [2022] ZAGPJHC 32 (21 January 2022)
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REPUBLIC
OF SOUTH AFRICA
IN
THE HIGH COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA
GAUTENG
LOCAL DIVISION, JOHANNESBURG
CASE
NO: 2021/40544
REPORTABLE: NO
OF INTEREST TO OTHER
JUDGES: NO
REVISED: NO
21 Jan 2022
In
the matter between:
RICHES
AND BEYOND (PTY) LTD
First Applicant
WEALTH
ALLIANCE (PTY)
LTD
Second Applicant
SYLVIA
MILOSEVIC
Third Applicant
and
FREDDY
RAMELA
First Respondent
THABO
MONGOATO
Second Respondent
THATHOMO
(PTY)
LTD
Third Respondent
JUDGMENT
ON APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL
FLATELA
A.J
[1]
This is an application for leave to appeal against my judgement
delivered
on 14 September 2021. The matter came before me as an
urgent application. The applicants sought an
interim,
and in
the alternative, a
final order
enforcing certain restraint of
trade clauses contained in two consultancy agreements concluded
between the applicants and the respondents
respectively. I refused to
grant an alternative final order. Instead, I granted prayers in terms
of interim relief.
[2]
For convenience’s sake, I will refer to the parties as they
were
referred to in the urgent application. I will very briefly
outline the background of the dispute between the parties.
[3]
The applicants and their affiliated companies offer South African
public
online and in-person courses which are focused on wealth
creation through property investment. They offer their clients a
mentorship
programme to assist them with the application of course
material in property deals. Mentors are assigned to students/clients
who
mentors and then develop intimate business relationship with
clients.
[4]
The first and second respondent were employed as mentors by the first
applicant company and subject to a twelve (12) months restraint of
trade agreement.
[5]
During August 2020 when following up on a potential client, the third
applicant discovered that the first and second respondent, whilst
still in the employ of the first applicants, were offering similar
courses and similar services that the applicant was offering at a
cheaper rate through the third respondent. The first and second
respondent are the directors of the third respondent.
[6]
A dispute arose between the parties. Having failed to resolve their
dispute
through an arbitration process as stipulated in their
respective contracts, the applicants approached the court on an
urgent basis
for an interim order pending the arbitration,
alternatively, a permanent interdict.
[7]
Having considered the matter I was
satisfied that the applicants satisfied the requirements for an
interim interdict. For consistency
in the paragraph numbering of this
judgement, the paragraph numbers of the orders I made in the 14
th
of September 2021 judgement are changed to conform with this
judgement:
[7.1.]
the first and second respondents are interdicted, restrained,
and
prohibited on an interim basis pending the finalisation of
arbitration proceedings between the parties from:
1.1
using (whether directly or indirectly) any
of the applicants’ secret, proprietary and/or confidential
information and/or intellectual
property (hereinafter collectively
referred to as the “
Proprietary
Information
”);
1.2
disclosing (whether directly or indirectly)
to any person, firm or company, and specifically, but not limited to,
the third respondent
any of the applicants’ Proprietary
Information;
1.3
engaging (whether directly or
indirectly) in any activity or obtaining or continuing engagement
and/or employment with the
third respondent, or with any firm,
partnership, company or close corporation or commence working for
their own account, if such
activity, employment or endevour relates,
either directly or indirectly to the supplying of goods and/or
services to any customer
of the applicants anywhere within South
Africa (online or in person) or such other geographical area as the
Court may determine
fair and reasonable in the circumstances;
1.4
engaging (whether directly or indirectly)
in any activity or obtaining or continuing engagement with and/or
employment by the third
respondent, or in any manner being involved
with, interested in, engaged by or concerned with any firm,
partnership, company or
close corporation or commence working for
their own account, if such activity, employment or endevour relates,
either directly
or indirectly competes with the activities and/or
business of the applicants’ anywhere within South Africa
(online or in
person) or such other geographical area as the Court
may determine fair and reasonable in the circumstances;
1.5
communicating (whether directly or
indirectly) with any of the customers of the applicants with a view
of soliciting business from
such customers, in competition with the
applicants anywhere within South Africa (online or in person) or such
other geographical
area as the Court may determine fair and
reasonable in the circumstances;
1.6
soliciting, hiring, contracting with,
engaging with, taking away, contracting with, employing or
endeavouring to employ (whether
directly or indirectly) whether
personally or in conjunction with any other person, persons, firm,
company, corporation or partnership
any of the employees, consultants
and/or contractors hired by and/or contracted by the applicants’
anywhere within South
Africa (online or in person) or such other
geographical area as the Court may determine fair and reasonable in
the circumstances;
1.7
soliciting, conducting negotiations or
concluding transactions (whether directly or indirectly) in
competition with the applicants
with any supplier from which the
applicants’ procures any goods and/or services of any other
description for resale, or with
which the applicants’ have
concluded preferential supply and/or agency agreements anywhere
within South Africa (online or
in person) or such other geographical
area as the Court may determine fair and reasonable in the
circumstances;
1.8
directly or indirectly in any manner,
interested, engaged or concerned in a competitive activity,
entity and/or business
of any nature, in competition with
the applicants’ anywhere within South Africa (online or in
person) or such other geographical
area as the Court may determine
fair and reasonable in the circumstances;
[7.2.] the first and
second respondents are ordered to immediately, but in any event no
later than 3 (three) days after this order
is granted, return to the
applicants’ any written instructions, drawings, notes, lists,
memorandum or records relating to
the trade secrets and/or
confidential information of the applicants made by the first and
second respondents or which came into
the control and/or possession
of the first and second respondents during the period of their
engagement by and/or association with
the applicants which includes,
but is not limited to, any copies thereof, extracts therefrom and/or
portions thereof and whether
on computer, disc or otherwise and to
the extent that any copies, extracts or portions of the aforegoing
are on hard disc, diaries
and the like, the first and second
respondents are ordered to delete, alternatively destroy all such
copies, extracts or portions
thereof;
[7.3.] the third
respondent is interdicted, restrained, and prohibited on an interim
basis pending the finalisation of arbitration
proceedings between the
parties from:
1.9
using (whether directly or indirectly) any
of the applicants Proprietary Information;
1.10
communicating (whether directly or
indirectly) with any of the customers of the applicants with a view
of soliciting business from
such customers, in competition with the
applicants anywhere within South Africa (online or in person) or such
other geographical
area as the Court may determine fair and
reasonable in the circumstances;
[7.4.] the third
respondent is ordered to immediately, but in any event no later than
3 (three) days after this order is granted,
return to the applicants
any written instructions, drawings, notes, lists, memorandum or
records relating to the trade secrets
and/or confidential information
of the applicants made by the first and second respondents or which
came into the control and/or
possession of the third respondent
during the period of the first and second respondents engagement
and/or association with the
applicants which includes, but is not
limited to , any copies thereof, extracts therefrom and/or portions
thereof and whether on
computer, disc or otherwise and to the extent
that any copies, extracts or portions of the aforegoing are on hard
disc, diaries
and the like, the third respondent is ordered to
delete, alternatively destroy all such copies, extracts or portions
thereof;
[7.5.] to the extent that
the respondents fail, refuse and/or neglect to proceed with
arbitration proceedings as is required in
terms of the consultancy
agreements entered into between the first and second respondents and
the first and second applicants to
have this dispute finally
determined on or before, but no later than,
30 October 2021
,
that any interim relief herein granted against the respondents shall
become final and remain in place for a period of
1 (one) year
from the date on which the consultancy agreements were terminated,
being for the avoidance of doubt,
16 August 2021
;
[7.6.] that the costs of
this application are to be paid by the first, second and third
respondents jointly and severally on party
and party scale, the one
paying the others to be absolved.
Notice
of Appeal and Grounds of Appeal
[8]
From reading their notice to appeal, the
respondents are appealing against the finding of facts and the
rulings of law. The respondents
dealt with the notice of leave to
appeal as if they are appealing against an ordinary judgement/order.
In doing so, they totally
ignored to deal with the appealability of
the interim order.
[9]
The grounds of appeal are the following:
9.1. I did not
deal with the respondent’s point in
limine
regarding the
misjoinder of the third respondent;
9.2. I
misdirected myself in law and on facts when dealing with the
enforceability of the restraint of trade first without
pronouncing on
its constitutionality. According to the respondents I ought to have
pronounced on the constitutionality of the restraint
of trade first
before dealing with its reasonableness and enforceability. (Arguing
from this standpoint, the respondents’
invitation was that I
set aside the restraint of trade agreement.)
9.4. the further
ground is that I erred when I ordered the applicant to return the
applicants’ trade materials at the
respondents’
possession within three (3) of grant of the interim order, or
alternatively, the same be deleted and destroyed
where applicable as
is so defined in terms of that order.
9.5. because of
the ending phrase, ‘as the Court may determine fair and
reasonable in the circumstances’ in part
of the orders, the
respondents argue that the orders are clearly not enforceable as the
court still needs to determine them. The
respondents are mischievous
for raising this point for therein lies an obvious literal error not
consequential to the spirit of
the grant of the interim relief nor
the reasoning behind it. The interim order is clear. It
operates only pending the finalisation
of arbitration proceedings.
9.6.
the final ground is that order [7.5] has
the effect of being a final interdict. Order [7.5] reads as follows:
“
to
the extent that the respondents fail, refuse and/or neglect to
proceed with arbitration proceedings as is required in terms of
the
consultancy agreements entered into between the first and second
respondents and the first and second applicants to have this
dispute
finally determined on or before, but no later than,
30
October 2021
, that any interim relief
herein granted against the respondents shall become final and remain
in place for a period of
1 (one) year
from the date on which the consultancy agreements were terminated,
being for the avoidance of doubt
16
August 2021
”
Principles regarding
notices of and leave to appeal
[10]
An application for leave to appeal is
regulated by
s 17(1)
of the
Superior Courts Act 10 of 2013
which
provides:
‘
(1)
Leave to appeal may only be given where the judge or judges concerned
are of the opinion that –
(a)
(i)
the appeal would have a reasonable prospect of success; or
(ii)
there is some other compelling reason why the appeal should be heard,
including conflicting
judgments on the matter under consideration;
(b)
the decision sought
on appeal does not fall within the ambit of
section 16(2)
(a)
;
and
(c)
where the decision
sought to be appealed does not dispose of all the issues in the case,
the appeal would lead to a just and prompt
resolution of the real
issues between the parties.’
[11]
The respondents’ notice of appeal
does not comply with the general principles on appeals. They are not
clearly and succinctly
set out.
[12]
Regarding
the general principle on for appeals, Justice Hendricks
in
Doorewaard v S
[1]
explains,
“
The
law governing a notice of appeal (and also notice of application for
leave to appeal) is trite. The grounds of appeal in a notice
of
application for leave to appeal must be clearly and succinctly set
out in unambiguous terms so as to enable the Court and the
respondent
to be fully and properly informed of the case which the applicant
seeks to make out and which the respondent is to meet
in opposing the
application for leave to appeal. The notice should not contain
arguments. Therefore, heads of argument must
also be filed and
served in which the points to be argued will be set out in much more
detail.”
[2]
[13]
Counsel for the applicants fiercely argued
that the respondents notice of application for leave to appeal is so
ambiguous that the
applicants were not fully and properly informed of
the case the respondent ought to make out. She argued, correctly in
my view,
that the respondents were attacking the reasons of the
judgement. This is in bad law and the matter stood to be dismissed on
that
point.
[14]
the
notice of application for leave to appeal is both inelegant and in
gross dereliction of any formalities, let alone, substantive
principles governing notices to and applications of leave to appeal.
Unlike an ordinary appeal, the respondents are appealing an
interim
order. These orders are generally not appealable. That is settled
law. But the bar to their appealability is not absolute.
It can never
be but that open door to their appealability, albeit narrow and
somewhat prescriptive, requires for an applicant to
pass the
Zweni
test
[3]
.
Secondly to clothe themselves with an interest of justice
certificate. The respondents’ dereliction not bringing forth
any of these prescripts is unfortunate.
[15]
Although I agree with the counsel’s
arguments that the notice of appeal is laden with legal argument
attacking the reasons
of my judgement, I allowed the respondents to
proceed to address me on their appeal in the interest of justice.
[16]
I do stress that even if had this been a
normal appeal against a decision or final ruling of an ordinary
judgement, the non-compliance
with the rules and general principles
of appeals in procedure, form and substance command censure.
Appealability of
interim interdict
[17]
The issue of appealability of an interim
order is well traversed and its law settled.by There are array of
decisions emanating from
the Supreme Court of Appeal and the
Constitutional Court regarding this issue.
[18]
The
foundational principles governing the appealability of interim orders
was laid down by Harms AJA in
Zweni
v
Minister of Law and Order
[4]
‘
A
"judgment or order" is a decision which, as a general
principle, has three attributes, first, the decision must be final
in
effect and not susceptible of alteration by the court of first
instance; second, it must be definitive of the rights of the
parties;
and, third, it must have the effect of disposing of at least a
substantial portion of the relief claimed in the main proceedings”
[19]
In
the
City
of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality v Afriforum and Another
[5]
Mogoeng CJ said
‘
The
appealability of interim orders in terms of the common law depends on
whether they are final in effect. . .
[20]
At paragraph 40 of that judgement, he
states:
‘
The common law
test for appealability has since been denuded of its somewhat
inflexible nature. Unsurprisingly so because
the common law is
not on par with but subservient to the supreme law that prescribes
the interests of justice as the only requirement
to be met for the
grant of leave to appeal. Unlike before, appealability no
longer depends largely on whether the interim
order appealed against
has
final effect or is dispositive of a substantial portion of the relief
claimed in the main application. All this is now subsumed
under
the constitutional interests of justice standard. The
over-arching role of interests of justice considerations has
relativised the final effect of the order or the disposition of the
substantial portion of what is pending before the review court,
in
determining appealability. The principle was set out in
OUTA
[6]
by
Moseneke DCJ in these terms:
“
This
Court has granted leave to appeal in relation to interim orders
before. It has made it clear that the operative standard
is
‘the interests of justice’. To that end, it must
have regard to and weigh carefully all germane circumstances.
Whether an interim order has a final effect or disposes of a
substantial portion of the relief sought in a pending review is a
relevant and important consideration. Yet, it is not the only
or always decisive consideration. It is just as important
to
assess whether the temporary restraining order has an immediate and
substantial effect, including whether the harm that flows
from it is
serious, immediate, ongoing and irreparable.”
[7]
[21]
Mogoeng CJ continues he continues:
‘
What the role of
interests of justice is in this kind of application, again entails
the need to ensure that form never trumps any
approach that would
advance the interests of justice. If appealability or the grant
of leave to appeal would best serve the
interests of justice, then
the appeal should be proceeded with no matter what the
pre-Constitution common law impediments might
suggest. This is
especially so where, as in this case, the interim order should not
have been granted in the first place by reason
of a failure to meet
the requirements. The Constitution and our law are all about real
justice, not mere formalities. Importantly,
the constitutional
prescript of legality and the rule of law demand that nobody, not
even a court of law, exercises powers they
do not have. Where
separation of powers is implicated and forbids the grant of the order
sought
to be appealed against, the interests of justice demand that even an
order that is not of final effect or does not dispose of a
substantial portion of the issues in the main application,
nevertheless be appealable.
[8]
Consequently,
although the final effect of the interim order or the disposition of
a substantial portion of issues in the main application
are not
irrelevant to the determination of appealability and the grant of
leave, they are in terms of our constitutional jurisprudence
hardly
ever determinative of appealability or leave.
[9]
Discussion
[22]
In spite of
Section 17.1
of the
Superior
Courts Act and
the general principles regulating notices to appeal,
and of application of leave to appeal, the respondents have not
complied with
any of those formalities nor with the general
principles. For instance, the notice for application for leave to
appeal is laden
with legal argument that should have been best placed
in heads of argument but this did not happen because no heads of
argument
were filed.
[23]
Secondly, no submission was made
in oral argument nor in the filed notice of application for leave to
appeal to address the court
with regard to the generally accepted
principle and dictum of interim orders not being generally
appealable.
[24]
I propose to deal with the grounds of
appeal separately
Misjoinder of the
third respondent
[25]
The respondents made a point in
limine
that the third respondent was not a party to the agreements between
the parties. Orders were nonetheless made against it. Upon
reconsideration, I am inclined to agree with the respondents on this
aspect. As such, I allow leave to appeal in respect of those
orders.
Reasonability;
constitutionality, and enforceability of the restraint of trade
agreement
[26]
Perhaps, the summary of the crux of the
respondents’ notices of application for leave to appeal is best
characterised in their
own words. They aver, ‘
another
primary issue to be determined was whether the restraint of trade
agreement is unreasonable, unconstitutional and therefore
unenforceable.’
This repetitive
issue was fiercely debated in the initial proceedings and
pronouncements made on it in the covering judgement.
[27]
With regard to the reasonableness of the
restraint of trade agreement between the parties, I expansively dealt
with this contention
in paragraphs 41; 42; 53; 54; and 56 – 62
of the interim judgement. I do not intend to repeat legal analysis
and the application
exercised therein as it would amount to a
purposeless reiteration.
[28]
With regard to the constitutionality of the
restraint of trade agreement, this too is dealt with in paragraphs 63
to 68 of the judgement.
On this ground, the respondents averred
there, as they do here, that the restraint of trade agreement is
unconstitutional for it
infringes on their constitutional right to
trade, occupation and profession. They argue that the restraint of
trade clauses in
their respective contracts are unconstitutional and
that because they have raised the constitutional issue, I should have
pronounced
on the constitutionality of the restraint of trade. This
is the most absurd arguments advanced by the respondents. The
restraint
of trade clauses is not as a general rule unconstitutional.
It is its effects that can be found to be unreasonable and
unenforceable.
[29]
In fact, these contracts have since
time immemorial been upheld and enforced by Courts including the
Constitutional Court. Therefore,
determination of whether any
restraint of trade agreement is contrary to public policy and
interest of justice is not found by
a frontal attack of the
constitutionality of these agreements in general, but rather, on the
reasonableness the agreement. I have
dealt with this issue in my
judgement.
[30]
An invitation was made that I venture into
a
section 36
analysis (limitation of rights) of the Constitution.
Failure to have done so, goes the argument, is a profound error of
law and
application. Again, another untenable contention. I found the
restraint of trade agreement to be reasonable. By implication, any
limitation of the respondents’ section 22 (trade, occupation,
and profession) rights was found to be constitutional.
[31]
In the present application for leave to
appeal, the respondents persist on the very same merit contentions of
the reasonability,
constitutionality, and enforceability of the
restraint of trade agreement between them and the applicants.
Retaining this persistence
in an interim, more so where heads of
arguments are absent, is in bad law.
[32]
I am not convinced that the other court
will come at a different conclusion.
Effect of finality
of order [7.2] and [7.4.]
[33]
A short summary of orders [7.2] and [7.4.],
respectively, is that the first to the third respondent are ordered
to return any proprietary
information to the applicants within 3 days
from date of the judgement. Alternatively, to delete and/or destroy
the same. The respondents
argue that I ignored their counsel’s
submission that the material is easily available on the internet; the
applicants have
not trademarked their material; and the alternative
order to delete and/or destroy the same is carries the effect of
being a final
interdict.
[34]
In my view, the applicants have on their
part shown that the respondents have been using their material, in
direct competition with
the applicants’ business, by promoting
their own side business. The materials were attached, and comparisons
were made for
similarity. The respondents on the other side failed to
show that material is readily available on the internet. Save for
change
of party names in the material, for example, the materials
were profoundly similar, if not a creche plagiarism.
[35]
However, I am inclined to agree with
respondents’ counsel that to the extent the
alternative
orders the respondents to delete and/or
destroy any material content defined thereunder pending arbitration
proceedings carries
an effect of being a final interdict. I
interpose, a finality effect which may be inadvertent an interim
interdict is not grounds
alone for allowing an application for leave
to appeal against such provided interim relief. Though the potential
effect is considered
in the determination of the application of
success or not of the leave to appeal shall be considered in the
fulcrum of interests
of injustice. I will deal with more about this
later.
Effect of finality
effect of order [7.5]
[36]
The final ground in the notice of
application for leave to appeal is that order [7.5] has the effect of
being a final interdict.
That order reads as follows:
“
to
the extent that the respondents fail, refuse and/or neglect to
proceed with arbitration proceedings as is required in terms of
the
consultancy agreements entered into between the first and second
respondents and the first and second Applicants to have this
dispute
finally determined on or before, but no later than,
30
October 2021
, that any interim relief
herein granted against the respondents shall become final and remain
in place for a period of
1 (one) year
from the date on which the consultancy agreements were terminated,
being for the avoidance of doubt
16
August 2021
”
[37]
The argument advanced by the applicants in
prayer of that relief is they
could
not wait for the arbitration process due to the fact that the parties
have failed to agree on urgent arbitration proceedings
and the
arbitration clause does not necessarily provide for urgent
arbitration. The applicant further argued that although the
respondents’ legal representatives advised of his availability
for urgent arbitration on 22 September 2021, no agreement
was reached
between the parties regarding the terms of the urgent arbitration.
Furthermore, the respondents may frustrate the process
in that by the
time the matter is finally determined the applicants will be out of
business. The respondents are vigorously marketing
their business to
the detriment of the applicants’ losing clients.
[38]
I have not been appraised as to whether, in
fact, arbitration proceedings are underway, if so, at which stage
they are or whether
any outcome has come of them.
[39]
Undoubtedly, the applicant made a case for
r
easonable
apprehension of irreparable and imminent harm if the interim
interdict was not granted. I was satisfied, as still am now,
that the
plaintiff adduced sufficient detail to satisfy the Court that they
have prima facie right to a proprietary interest worthy
of
protection.
[40]
Secondly, not only
did they have a reasonable apprehension of irreparable and imminent
harm, but the harm was in actual fact, manifest
as the respondents
have been trading as direct competitors of the applicants’
business for a period of no less than ten (10)
months whilst under
the applicants employ.
[41]
After
confirming that the interests of justice were paramount in assessing
the appealability of an interim order, the Constitutional
Court in
National
Treasury and Others v Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance and
Others
[10]
went
on to set out what factors a court should consider in assessing where
the interests of justice lay:
‘
.
. . To that end, [a court] must have regard to and weigh carefully
all the germane circumstances. Whether an interim order has
a final
effect or disposes of a substantial portion of the relief sought in a
pending review is a relevant and important consideration.
Yet, it is
not the only or always decisive consideration. It is just as
important to assess whether the temporary restraining order
has an
immediate and substantial effect, including whether the harm that
flows from it is serious, immediate, ongoing and irreparable.’
[11]
[42]
Regarding
order
[7.5], I am of the view that it would be in the interest of justice
to allow leave to appeal against this order due the fact
that it has
a final effect because of the final dates of arbitration that were
placed on the order.
[43]
I should however remark, I am not convinced
that the respondents enjoy any reasonable prospects of success
envisaged under
section 17(1)(a)(i)
of the
Superior Courts Act. In
my
view, the applicants compellingly demonstrated that they have prima
facie right, though in doubt; and a proprietary interest
worthy of
protection; to which, if an interim interdict were not to be granted,
they would suffer irreparable harm, or at the very
least, they have a
reasonable apprehension of the same to imminently arise.
[44]
Harms
AJA in
Zweni
v
Minister of Law and Order
[12]
puts
it elegantly,
‘
A
"judgment or order" is a decision which, as a general
principle, has three attributes,
first,
the decision must be final in effect and not susceptible of
alteration by the court of first instance
;
second, it must be
definitive of the rights of the parties; and third, it must have the
effect of disposing of at least a substantial
portion of the relief
claimed in the main proceedings”
(my
emphasis)
[45]
I
am satisfied that the first leg of the test has been met. Therefore,
I grant the respondents leave to appeal under section
17(1)(a)(ii)
[13]
(that there
is some other compelling reason why the appeal should be heard) in
terms of the
Superior Courts Act.
ORDER
[46]
In the circumstance the following order is
granted.
1.
Application
for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal is granted
2.
The costs of
the application for leave to appeal will be the costs in the appeal.
FLATELA
L
ACTING
JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT
This
Judgment was handed down electronically by circulation to the
parties’ and or parties representatives by email and by
being
uploaded to CaseLines. The date and time for the hand down is deemed
to be 10h00 on 21 January 2022
Date
of Hearing:
9 December
2021
Date
of Judgment:
21 January 2022
Applicants’
Counsel:
Adv H Barter
Instructed
by:
Barter Mckellar, 89 5th Street, Linden, Randburg
Respondent’s
Counsel: Adv Vimbi
Instructed
by:
N Gawula Inc, 482 Chopin Street, Constantia Park, Pretoria
[1]
Doorewaard
v S
[2019]
ZANWHC 25.
[2]
Also
see
Songono
v Minister of Law-and-Order
1996 (4) SA 384
(E); S v Mc Kenzie
2003
(2) SACR 616
(C); Xayimpi and Others v Chairman Judge White
Commission and Others
[2006] 2 ALLSA 442
(E); S v Van Heerden
2010
(1) SACR 539
(ECP).
[3]
Footnote
16.
[4]
Zweni v
Minister of Law and Order
1993 (1) SA 523
(A) at 532I-533B.
[5]
City
of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality v Afriforum and Another
[2016]
ZACC 19
, para 39.
[6]
National
Treasury v Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance
[2012]
ZACC 18
;
2012 (6) SA 223
(CC);
2012 (11) BCLR 1148
(CC) (
OUTA
)
[7]
OUTA
above
n 3 at para 25.
[8]
City
of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality v Afriforum and Another
[2016]
ZACC 19
, para 41
[9]
Ibid,
42.
[10]
National
Treasury v Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance
[2012]
ZACC 18
;
2012 (6) SA 223
(CC);
2012 (11) BCLR 1148
(CC) (
OUTA
)
[11]
Ibid,
para 25.
[12]
Zweni v
Minister of Law and Order
1993 (1) SA 523
(A) at 532I-533B.
[13]
(ii) there
is some other compelling reason why the appeal should be heard,
including conflicting judgments on the matter
under consideration;
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