Williams and Another v Williams N.O and Others (10857/2020) [2021] ZAWCHC 77 (30 April 2021)
Court
Western Cape High Court, Cape Town
Case number
10857/2020
Judge
J Cloete
The High Court dismissed an eviction application, finding the occupier’s long-standing right of occupation bound the applicants and was not unlawful under PIE.
Wiseman v De Pinna and Others (126/85) [1985] ZASCA 100; [1986] 1 All SA 341 (A) (25 September 1985)
Court
Supreme Court of Appeal
Case number
126/85
Judges
Corbett, Joubert, Helen, Grosskopf, Nicholas
The Supreme Court of Appeal held that the agreement of 3 November 1980 was not a 'lease of rights to minerals in land' within the meaning of section 3(1) of the General Law Amendment Act 50 of 1956. The Court reasoned that the technical legal meaning of 'lease of rights to minerals' refers to mineral leases as understood in common law and historical statutes, not to leases of claim licences granted under mining legislation. The omission of any reference to leases of claims in section 3(1), as opposed to earlier statutes, indicated a legislative intent to exclude such agreements from the forma…