The Facts: An Unemployed Husband, an Extra-Marital Child, and a Contested Rental Income
This is an opposed application brought in terms of Rule 43 of the Uniform Rules of Court before DJ Smit AJ in the Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa, Johannesburg, heard on 25 March 2026 and decided on 31
The Facts and Background to the Rule 43(6) Application
The matter of J.V.D.B v O.V.D.B (234/25) [2026] ZAWCHC 136 (23 March 2026) came before Thulare J in the High Court of South Africa, Eastern Circuit Local Division, Thembalethu. The parties were married and had a minor child together. The applicant left the common home with
The Facts: A Six-Year-Old, Gangrenous Feet and a Family’s Unyielding Faith On 19 January 2026, a six-year-old girl, referred to as AD to protect her identity, was admitted to the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town in a critical condition. She presented with meningococcal septicaemia — a life-threatening blood infection caused by
Released on 19 March 2026: fewer marriages, later marriages, and a more differentiated formal union system. Prepared from Official Statistics South Africa data contained in Marriages and Divorces, 2024.Source note This article is based on the P0307 release published under embargo for 19 March 2026. The release records marriages and unions registered during 2024 and
This article explains the key features of Statistics South Africa’s latest divorce release, highlights the most important movements from 2023 to 2024, and places the published figures in their wider family-law context. Publication date of release: 19 March 2026 | Primary source: Statistics South Africa, Marriages and Divorces, 2024. Key shifts from the previous period
The Facts: A Blended Family, a Breakdown, and a Battle Over Stepchildren’s Maintenance BE and NT married on 27 April 2018, out of community of property subject to the accrual system. The marriage deteriorated towards the end of 2023 and the parties separated. NT, a dietician, instituted divorce proceedings in the Western Cape Division of
The Facts: An Unmarried Partner Seeks Interim Maintenance P.A.L v R.J.T (17492/2023) [2026] ZAWCHC 99 (4 March 2026) came before Da Silva Salie J in the Western Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa and was both heard and delivered on 4 March 2026. The matter concerned an application for interim maintenance pendente
The Facts: A Pattern of Non-Disclosure and Deliberate Financial Engineering In C V S v S V S (18688/2022) [2026] ZAWCHC 30 (16 February 2026), Holderness J was confronted with what can only be described as a textbook example of a litigant who persistently sought to exploit Rule 43(6) of the Uniform Rules of Court
The Facts: A Maintenance Enquiry Gone Awry The matter of T.M-S v I.N (Appeal) (A31/2025) [2026] ZAWCHC 72 (19 February 2026) came before Pangarker J and Davis AJ in the Western Cape Division of the High Court, Cape Town, on appeal against a maintenance order granted by the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court sitting as a
Factual Matrix: A Rule 43 Application Gone Wrong The parties married on 13 October 2012 in Johannesburg, out of community of property with the accrual system. Two minor children were born of the marriage: a son, L M J, born on 10 January 2018 (now 9 years old), and a daughter, H A J, born