Witwatersrand Township, Estate & Finance Corporation Ltd v Ritch [1913] ZAWLD 17 (19 June 1913)

Landford and tenant - Lease of stand - Restrictive covenants as to coloured persons - Living on stand - Caretaker

In terms of a lease the lessee was not to allow coloured persons, other than domestic servants, to live or dwell on the premises leased.

Held, that it was not a breach of the lease for the lessee to allow a coloured person, not a domestic servant, who had a home of his own, to sleep on the premises as a caretaker.