The Daantjie Community, together with individual and traditional authority representatives, sought leave to appeal against a Land Claims Court judgment delivered on 26 February 2015. That earlier judgment had dismissed their application for rescission of a default judgment granted on 20 November 2008 against them in a land restitution dispute involving Crocodile Valley Citrus Company (Pty) Ltd. The applicants contended that the default judgment was extraordinary and that there was a clear historical link between the community and the claimed land. They further argued that refusing rescission would permanently bar the community from reclaiming approximately 3,000 hectares of land under the Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994.