QUESTION 5 10 MARKS

Decide in each of the following instances whether the contract is valid, void or voidable. Motivate your answers.

5.1 Grace orders an oval-shaped swimming pool to be delivered, but the pool company delivers a square-shaped pool. (2)

5.2 Rob phones Lindsays home number and makes her a job offer. The next morning Lindsays sister, Janine, comes to work for him. Rob discovers that the offer was made to the wrong person. (2)

5.3 A traditional healer tells his patient, Julius, that he should give him all his sheep in order to be cured of Tuberculosis. Julius agrees. (2)

5.4 Louis thinks that he becomes the owner of the property by paying for the occupancy. (2)

5.5 Robert, a prominent official at the local university, wants to buy Gideons car. Gideon is reluctant to sell his car to Robert. Robert tells him that if he does not sell the car to him, he will see to it that his son (Gideons son) will not be allowed to study at the local university. Gideon sells his car to Robert. (2)