Long record of litigation

● The TC Botha Trust bought the portion of the farm for R12-million as “opposed to the mere R5-million that Andries was willing to give for it”.

● This is the second lawsuit the Goudyn Plase Trust has instituted against its new neighbours over water use.

● The court file is 990 pages long, is mostly in Afrikaans, and was filed in 2006, before the courts fully implemented the official language policy.