Question 3:

Vusi is the owner of a hardware and building material company. He concluded a contract with Terry to manufacture and deliver 10 000 bricks or 10 pallets of bricks (one pallet contains 1 000 brick units) at Terry's farm on Monday 19 March 2018 at 12:00. Indicate which type of breach of contract, if any, occurred in the following circumstances. Motivate your answer.

a) Vusi arrived at Terry's farm on time to deliver the bricks but there was no one to receive the bricks at the agreed time.

b) Vusi only delivered 8 000 bricks (8 pallets) to Terry.

c) Before close of business on 18 March 2018, the workers stacked the delivery truck with the 10 pallets (10 000 units) of bricks to deliver to Terry the morning of the 19thof March 2018 as per agreement. However, on the evening of the 18thof March 2018, the truck, with the 10 brick pallets, are stolen from Vusi's property as he forgot to lock the loading warehouse garage.

(18 marks)