The applicant, Mr Charles Elias Maredi, and his family have lived on Portion 7 of the farm Olifantslaagte since about 1974, initially under the ownership of Phillip Meyer and later his successors. Over decades, the family occupied a homestead near a dam and grazed livestock in surrounding grazing areas with the consent of previous owners. In September 2020, the first respondent, Mr Gideon Petrus Anderson, purchased Portion 7. Shortly thereafter, disputes arose regarding the applicant’s grazing of livestock, alleged limitations in a written residency agreement (signed in Afrikaans, which the applicant claims he did not understand), and the applicant’s right to rebuild a mud house partially destroyed by storms. The applicant alleged unlawful interference with his peaceful occupation, restriction of grazing rights leading to livestock deaths, and refusal to permit rebuilding. He brought an urgent ex parte application seeking interim interdictory relief pending eviction proceedings. The first respondent opposed the relief and brought a counter-application to interdict the applicant from grazing livestock, contending that any grazing rights were personal, contract-based rights that did not bind him as successor in title and were not protected under ESTA.