On a June morning in 2022, a head-on collision on the N4 shattered Oaitse Comfort Letsholonyane's elbow and, he believed, his livelihood. More than a year later, the North West High Court weighed his R2.8 million claim against the Road Accident Fund and found not that his suffering was in doubt, but that the chain of proof linking his injury to his job loss had broken under the weight of its own contradictions. The judgment stands as a quiet reminder that in the architecture of justice, even genuine hardship must be built on verified foundations.
Court dismisses R2.8m RAF claim over conflicting dismissal evidence
Claimant suffered open fracture requiring surgery and lost employment, receiving only R400,000 in general damages instead of R2.8m claimed.