In a January 2025 judgment, the High Court addressed a claim for delictual damages by the claimant, who alleged that she suffered harm due to the negligence of the employees, nurses, and doctors at a District Hospital. The claimant contended that the defendant, the MEC for Health, Limpopo Provincial Government, failed to provide adequate monitoring
Delictual Damages
To stand or not to stand – a case of legal standing

By Donald Dinnie on
This blog was co-authored by Sebenzile Magagula, Candidate Attorney.
A claim http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZANWHC/2023/102.html was dismissed by the High Court on the grounds that the respondent lacked the requisite legal standing to litigate on behalf of her husband who was the party to the contract sued on.
The claimant sued for delictual damages arising from failure by…