THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL OF SOUTH AFRICA

JUDGMENT

           Case No: 409/11
       
       		    Not reportable 

In the matter between:
			  
CHRISTIAAN LOUIS CARSTENS NO			     FIRST APPELLANT
ANDRIES JOHANNES DANIEL BESTER NO		SECOND APPELLANT
ARNO STRYDOM NO					    THIRD APPELLANT
VINCENT CYRIL TEE NO					FOURTH APPELLANT
CHRISTIAAN LOUIS CARSTENS			     FIFTH APPELLANT

and

BRIGID MARY CARSTENS					  RESPONDENT
	
Neutral citation:    Carstens NO v Carstens (409/11) [2012] ZASCA 62
		          (10 May 2012).

Coram:	          Brand, Cloete and Heher JJA     		

Heard:	          10 May 2012

Delivered:	          10 May 2012	

Summary:	

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ORDER
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On appeal from:	Eastern Cape High Court, Port Elizabeth (Dambuza J
sitting as court of first instance):

The appeal is struck off the roll. The Trust (represented by the first to fourth appellants) and the fifth appellant, are ordered to pay the respondent’s costs of appeal jointly and severally.
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JUDGMENT
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CLOETE JA (BRAND AND HEHER JJA  CONCURRING):

[1]	The court a quo dismissed the ‘point in law’ raised by the appellants and granted leave to appeal to this court. But the order amounts to the dismissal of an exception, which is interlocutory and therefore not appealable. There is the specific authority of Maize Board v Tiger Oats Ltd 2002 (5) SA 365 (SCA) and the general authority of Zweni v Minister of Law and Order 1993 (1) SA 523 (A) at 532I-533B.

[2]	The appeal must accordingly be struck off the roll.

[3]	The following order is made:
The appeal is struck off the roll. The Trust (represented by the first to fourth appellants) and the fifth appellant, are ordered to pay the respondent’s costs of appeal jointly and severally.

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T D CLOETE
JUDGE OF APPEAL

APPEARANCES:
First to Fourth Appellant:	P A van Niekerk SC (with him Ms A Venter)
Instructed by:
Van Niekerk, Huisamen & Van Wyk, Uitenhage
Honey Attorneys, Bloemfontein

Fifth Appellant:		J D Huisamen SC
				Instructed by:
				Kaplan Blumberg Attorneys, Port Elizabeth
				Honey Attorneys, Bloemfontein

For Respondent:		R G Buchanan SC
Instructed by:
 G P van Rhyn Minnaar & Co, Uitenhage
Symington & De Kok, Bloemfontein