After hearing submissions by counsel in the two applications, the Court made the following order:
“After considering the papers filed in this matter and hearing submissions by counsel, the Court unanimously concludes that both applications have no merit and are hereby dismissed with costs on the ordinary scale.”
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The two matters herein are applications for leave to appeal, lodged in terms of r 32(2) of the Constitutional Court Rules 2016, against two separate judgments of the Supreme Court. The first judgment (No. SC 131/21) was handed down in Case No. SC 153/20, while the second judgment (No. SC 132/21) was delivered in Case No. SC 125/21.
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On 12 February 2013, the respondent issued a purchase order to the appellant for the supply by the latter of 2 x 12KV vacuum circuit breakers. Early in the morning on the following day, the respondent sent an email to the appellant instructing it to hold any further transactions on the order until further notice. A series of emails was exchanged by the parties, with the respondent insisting that the order be put on hold and that it had in fact cancelled the order. On the other hand, the appellant insisted that it had already placed an order with its...
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This is an appeal against the entire decision of the Supreme Court which held that the immovable property called Umguza Agricultural Lots of Umvutcha and Reigate, being gazetted land, belonged to the State. It went on to make a finding that the courts’ jurisdiction relating to the acquisition of the land was ousted by s 16B of the former Constitution. This is an appeal with leave granted on 11 June 2024 in the case of Fletcher v Minister of Lands & Ors CCZ 07-24.
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