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Pillay v Lopdale Energy (Pty) Ltd (2024/127178) [2025] ZAGPJHC 681 (15 July 2025)
The High Court granted final liquidation of Lopdale Energy (Pty) Ltd after finding it unable to pay its debts and rejecting its defences as not bona fide.
Poisonwood Investments (Pty) Ltd v Meyer Van Der Walt Incorporated and Others (2024-105894) [2025] ZAGPPHC 574 (6 June 2025)
The court held that trust funds from unit sales were not assets of the insolvent estate, but were payable to Poisonwood Investments, with costs against the liquidators.
Kok v Hill N.O and Others (2024/031287) [2025] ZAGPJHC 492 (20 May 2025)
The High Court dismissed a review aimed at overturning trustees’ repudiation of a property sale after insolvency, finding no procedural irregularity and no vulnerable purchaser status.
Prudential Authority v Dlamini and Another (36/2023) [2024] ZASCA 133; [2025] 1 All SA 76 (SCA); 2025 (1) SA 365 (SCA) (2 October 2024)
The SCA held that failure to comply with a Banks Act repayment directive can justify provisional sequestration without separate proof of factual insolvency.
Lang v ABSA Bank and Others (079773/2023) [2024] ZAGPJHC 891 (11 September 2024)
The applicant, Brett Lang, failed to establish locus standi on any of the grounds advanced. As an unrehabilitated insolvent, he lacked the legal capacity to litigate without the trustee's consent and was neither a current director nor shareholder of the companies in question. His reliance on public interest standing under section 38 of the Constitution was unsubstantiated, as he did not demonstrate a sufficient connection to the rights asserted beyond his personal grievance. The relief sought was hypothetical, academic, and framed as a moral judgment rather than a legal determination, lacking…
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Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd v Tornado Boerdery en Algemene Handelaars CC (131/2022) [2024] ZANCHC 61 (12 July 2024)
The High Court granted provisional liquidation against the respondent after finding it financially distressed, unable to pay its debt, and that business rescue had failed.
Body Corporate of Old Trafford v Muronzi (016676/2023) [2024] ZAGPPHC 623 (21 June 2024)
The High Court refused final sequestration, finding no practical advantage over execution and special circumstances arising from the risk of homelessness.
Imvula Quality Protection (Africa) Pty (Ltd) v Dontsa Property Investments (Pty) Limited (037680/2023) [2024] ZAGPPHC 458 (16 May 2024)
The court held that payment of the debt did not erase the liquidation application, but the applicant was not the successful party and got no costs.
Supreme Poultry (Pty) Ltd and Others v Williams N.O and Others (6 May 2024) (2022/060092) [2024] ZAGPJHC 471 (6 May 2024)
The High Court ordered liquidators to furnish security for costs in a Rule 47 application, finding a real risk of irrecoverable costs and no reason to refuse interim relief.
Mulaudzi and Another v Cash Crusaders Franchising (Pty) Ltd and Others (29047/2015) [2023] ZAGPPHC 2056 (5 December 2023)
The High Court granted urgent interim relief stopping creditors’ meeting and estate administration pending a rescission application and SIU investigation.
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