A Johannesburg High Court sets aside a will signed by a businessman in July 2014 after finding there are reasons to believe he no longer had testamentary capacity by mid-2014. The ruling follows a family dispute over how a multi-million-rand estate should be distributed.
The court’s decision means an earlier will, signed in April 2012, is treated as the valid document for the estate. The case centres on the businessman’s mental ability to understand and make decisions about his will at the time it was signed, with the court concluding that the later will cannot stand.
Across the reported account, the key outcome is the same: the July 2014 will is declared invalid due to likely loss of testamentary capacity, and succession proceeds under the April 2012 will rather than the later one.
