Equality | The Moseneke Case

When the father of Justice Moseneke, a former school principal died, his surviving family wished his will to be administered by the Master's Office and not under the racist Native Administration Act. The judgment upheld his challenge to provisions of an Act which had been at the heart of oppression of the black majority since 1927. At the same time, it acknowledged that the Act provided for relatively simple, speedy and inexpensive methods of dealing with the estates of millions of relatively poor black people, which should not be discontinued while parliament worked on necessary remedial processes.