Jeffreys Bay couple Elsie and Johan Grobler, whose Wavecrest home annually becomes a tourist draw card because of their stunning Christmas lights and decorations, have won their day in court after neighbours failed to shut their festive spirit down.
Pensioner Mona Wingaardt, who lives diagonally opposite the Groblers, as well as some other neighbours, took the couple to court because they said the annual light show created a nuisance and affected their right to “free and undisturbed use” of their properties.
They sought to interdict the Groblers from switching on any Christmas lights at their home during the festive season but the court rejected the application.
The hostilities between the feuding neighbours did not end there. Wingaardt took the matter on appeal to a full bench of the high court.
But Judge Ziets Alkema, with Judge Jos Jones agreeing, found that, as far as the Christmas lights were concerned, the good outweighed the bad and the lights should be allowed to stay on.
Read the full report at Daily Dispatch Online.
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