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chicken feed to the defendant.
Trencor Investments disputed that Africa Chicks should provide proof of the money owed by them and they further claimed that all outstanding amounts owed to the plaintiff were settled.
On April 20, 2022, the matter was
MBABANE – The witness in the matter, Julia Rita Saulos, further mentioned that Trencor Investments (Pty) Ltd stopped making payments in 2015.
She said the defendant withdrew its orders with the plaintiff and basically stopped dealing with Africa Chicks (Pty) Ltd.
The plaintiff then issued several demands to the defendant for payment of the outstanding amounts of the money due and payable to Africa Chicks (Pty) Ltd. According to Saulos, Trencor Investments, being the defendant in the matter, gave several explanations for not being able to pay the outstanding amounts including that its computer system had crushed. The witness further stated that they made copies of all documents including orders, delivery notes and invoices to the plaintiff but they would still not pay.
She also mentioned that the defendant would also give the excuse that the person who was doing their accounts had left their employ and that they were in the process of reconciling their books and would get back to them. “Julia Rita Saulos’s evidence was that the defendant’s officers kept giving one excuse after the other for not paying the outstanding sum of money due to it,” said Dlamini in the judgment. According to Saulos, Africa Chicks (Pty) Ltd uses a Pastel programme for its accounting system. The witness stated that they printed a full ledger from their accounting programme and sent it to Trencor Investments (Pty) Ltd. Saulos further mentioned that Trencor Investments (Pty) Ltd had undertaken an assessment of the sum of money due to the plaintiff and established that only a sum of E589 535.03 was outstanding in respect of the broiler chicks supplied to them by the plaintiff.
“This means the defendant was disputing a sum of E26 427.47 on this particular claim, In this regard, Saulos showed the court a document prepared by the defendant to show that it was only disputing the sum of
E26 535.47 on the claim for broiler chicks,” reads the judgment. It was in Saulos’s evidence that Africa Chicks was also involved in the business of supplying broiler feed sourced from the Republic of South Africa to its customers.
Trencor Investments (Pty) Ltd was one of Africa Chicks (Pty) Ltd customers, according to Saulos, the credit arrangement existing between the parties was that the defendant was expected to pay within 30 days.
Saulos stated that the plaintiff supplied feed and medication for the chicks of the defendant. She further stated that the debt outstanding from Trencor Investments (Pty) Ltd would at times rise up to E3 000 000, but the defendant would gradually redue the debt until in would be slightly above E1 000 000.
She mentioned that currently, Trencor Investments was indebted to Africa Chicks the sum of E642 212.14 for broiler chicks supplied to it and another sum of E460 156.02 in respect of broiler feed and medication.
Oil giants must pay - COP27
EGYPT
– Leaders from poor countries criticised wealthy governments and oil companies for driving global warming at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt. yesterday
“The oil and gas industry continues to earn almost US$3bn daily in profits,” said Gaston Browne, Antigua’s prime minister, speaking at the conference on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States.
“It is about time that these companies are made to pay a global carbon tax on their profits as a source of funding for loss and damage,” he said. “While they are profiting, the planet is burning.”