High Court to decide Riverwalk plot case

The attorney for the government, Charles Gulubane, told the court yesterday that according to the Prescription Act, "the action for claim should have been made from the date when the wrong upon which the claim for damages is based was first brought to the knowledge of the creditor, or from the date when the creditor might reasonably have been expected to have knowledge of such wrong, whichever is the earlier date".

Gulubane submitted that the action should have been made at least in 2000 when Oremeng knew that the former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Local Government, Lands and Housing, Elvidge Mhlauli, has wronged him by allocating land to someone else.