LPL4801 Assignment 1 2025 Due 29 August 2025

LPL4801 Assignment 1 2025 Due 29 August 2025

LJU4804 PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSIGNMENT 1 FOR SECOND
SEMESTER STUDENTS

UNIQUE NUMBER: 157775

DUE DATE: 29 August 2025 17:00 (CAT)

Read the set of facts and then answer the questions that follow:

Mrs Musonga executed a will in Malawi in 2006 whilst domiciled in Zambia. In terms
of this will, she appointed her husband as her sole heir. In 2010, she divorced her
husband and moved to South Africa where she established a domicile in
Johannesburg. She purchased three properties in Gauteng between 2011 and
2014. In 2011, she executed a second will while on a business trip in Germany.

1.1 Mrs Musonga’s first will was formally valid in terms of the law of the place
of execution only. Her second will is found to be formally invalid in terms of
all the possible testing systems as per section 3 bis (1)(a) of the Wills Act, but
valid in terms of Malawian law. Who inherits Mrs Musonga’s estate? Discuss.
(Note: You have do discuss s 3 bis (1)(d) of the Wills Act 7 of 1953).