KHANYILE v SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIAL SECURITY AGENCY (SASSA) AND OTHERS (8695/2017) [2019] ZAKZPHC 74 (18 NOVEMBER 2019)

SUMMARY Wilson Busizwe Khanyile (the “applicant”) is a disability grantee in terms of Social Assistance Act 13 of 2004 (“the Act”) who brought an action, in the High Court of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, against the South African Social Security Agency (the “first respondent”), Cash Paymaster Services (Pty) Ltd (the “second respondent”) and Grindrod Bank Ltd (the
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Griessel NO and Others v De Kock and Another (334/18) [2019] ZASCA 95 (6 June 2019)

BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY In 1999, two sisters created an inter vivos trust known as the Arathusa Family Trust (the “Trust”). The Trust is the sole shareholder of a company called Manyeleti (Pty) Ltd (the company), which owns a farm that is part of a game reserve. The three trustees appointed in terms of the trust
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South African Local Authorities Pension Fund v Mthembu & Another (20649/2015) [2015] ZASCA 205 (3 December 2015)

SUMMARY On 3 May 1997, the First Respondent became entitled to claim a child pension benefit from the Appellant on behalf of her daughter (“Mbali”), upon the death of her husband, who was a member of the Appellant.   The Appellant’s Pension Fund Rules (“the Rules”) contained a clause which prohibited the granting of a
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