, MRL3702 Assignment 2 (COMPLETE ANSWERS)
Semester 1 2025 - DUE April 2025
Mokoko works for Ko-Diplaseng (Pty) Ltd (KD) as a truck driver. He
loads and delivers potatoes to all branches of Mazimba Factories (MF)
in South Africa. For long distances, KD would normally give Mokoko a
petty cash to enable him to buy food to eat when he feels hunger, book a
hotel room when he feels tired, and to proceed with a safe trip the
following day when he is refreshed. One day as Mokoko was on his way
to deliver potatoes from Pretoria to Cape Town he noticed a lady with
ababy on her back walking alongside the road between two remote
towns. Out of sympathy, Mokoko stopped and gave the lady a lift. When
they got to the next town, dusk had fallen, and he decided to take a
fifteen kilometers detour, just to make sure that the lady and her baby
arrived safely at home. Due to poor lighting in the village, Mokoko
could not see a donkey cart entering the road and he hit it. As a result,
the truck and the cart were damaged and the legs of the two donkeys
which pulled the cart, were broken. A veterinarian report indicated that
the donkeys would no longer be of any use because of their injuries. The
owner of the cart, a 58 years old, Radipitsi who is unemployed and
relied on cart services he offered to the locals to survive, wants the truck
driver to pay the cost of both the damaged cart and injured donkeys to
the value of R150 000.00. Radipitsi has lost a source of his income and
Mokoko is not in a position to compensate Radipitsi.
Answer the following questions with reference to the applicable legal
authority:
Semester 1 2025 - DUE April 2025
Mokoko works for Ko-Diplaseng (Pty) Ltd (KD) as a truck driver. He
loads and delivers potatoes to all branches of Mazimba Factories (MF)
in South Africa. For long distances, KD would normally give Mokoko a
petty cash to enable him to buy food to eat when he feels hunger, book a
hotel room when he feels tired, and to proceed with a safe trip the
following day when he is refreshed. One day as Mokoko was on his way
to deliver potatoes from Pretoria to Cape Town he noticed a lady with
ababy on her back walking alongside the road between two remote
towns. Out of sympathy, Mokoko stopped and gave the lady a lift. When
they got to the next town, dusk had fallen, and he decided to take a
fifteen kilometers detour, just to make sure that the lady and her baby
arrived safely at home. Due to poor lighting in the village, Mokoko
could not see a donkey cart entering the road and he hit it. As a result,
the truck and the cart were damaged and the legs of the two donkeys
which pulled the cart, were broken. A veterinarian report indicated that
the donkeys would no longer be of any use because of their injuries. The
owner of the cart, a 58 years old, Radipitsi who is unemployed and
relied on cart services he offered to the locals to survive, wants the truck
driver to pay the cost of both the damaged cart and injured donkeys to
the value of R150 000.00. Radipitsi has lost a source of his income and
Mokoko is not in a position to compensate Radipitsi.
Answer the following questions with reference to the applicable legal
authority:
