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Njwaxu v Minister of Home Affairs and Others (23272/24) [2025] ZAWCHC 319 (29 July 2025)
The court remitted an alleged customary marriage registration to Home Affairs for enquiry, after finding the department had not conducted the required investigation.
Z.M v P.M and Others (21/27860) [2024] ZAGPJHC 1006 (4 October 2024)
The High Court declared an alleged customary marriage void, removed the first respondent as executrix, and appointed the applicant’s attorneys to administer the estate.
Stander v Daly and Others (M521/2022) [2024] ZANWHC 225 (6 September 2024)
The court granted condonation and referred a dispute about a claimed universal partnership to oral evidence to resolve conflicting facts about maintenance and inheritance.
Ngobeni and Another v Malungani and Others (2024-069450) [2024] ZAGPPHC 707 (15 July 2024)
Urgent interim interdict preserved estate and pension/gratuity funds pending litigation over the validity of the applicant’s alleged customary marriage.
Dladla v Ndhlovu and Others (2022-13299) [2023] ZAGPJHC 1019 (11 September 2023)
The High Court granted condonation in a rescission dispute over a customary marriage and held that material factual disputes about standing must go to trial.
M.S.N v C.Z.M and Others (50880/2014) [2021] ZAGPPHC 519 (11 August 2021)
The High Court dismissed an application to exhume a deceased man’s remains for paternity testing and to delay enforcement of a pension-benefit order.
Cele and Others v Cele and Others (8488/2015) [2017] ZAKZDHC 2 (9 January 2017)
The court found that the applicants, except for the fifth applicant, were the children of Matshotsho Tholakele Cele and Mfana Cele, who were married in community of property. Upon Tholakele's death, the Intestate Succession Act applied, and Mfana Cele inherited her share of the joint estate. When Mfana Cele remarried the first respondent in community of property, the property became part of their joint estate. Upon Mfana Cele's death, the value of the estate was below the statutory threshold, and the first respondent inherited the property in terms of the Intestate Succession Act. The applica…
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Molefe NO v Director General Home Affairs and Others (46248/12) [2013] ZAGPPHC 442 (8 November 2013)
High Court directed the applicant to obtain the record and reasons for registration of an alleged customary marriage before pursuing review under Rule 53.
Executor Estate: Sorour v Scowby (AR232/08) [2009] ZAKZPHC 58 (4 September 2009)
The court held that the expectation of inheritance prior to the confirmation of the liquidation and distribution account does not constitute a debt accruing in the future for purposes of section 72 of the Magistrates' Court Act. The right to inherit is a mere contingent interest or spes and is not attachable under a garnishee order until the estate is distributable and the right becomes enforceable. The Magistrate erred in finding that the executor was holding funds on behalf of the heir and in ordering immediate payment. Furthermore, the Magistrate failed to properly address the alleged cess…
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Heymans v Van Tonder (1) (406/83) [1985] ZASCA 43; [1985] 2 All SA 389 (A) (29 May 1985)
The court interpreted a joint will to require payment of half the estate value on the surviving spouse’s remarriage, with security only if payment was postponed due to the beneficiary’s minority.
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