DUT

Mlungisi Madonsela died after being shot in an alleged altercation with security guards at the Durban University of Technology on February 12 2019.

“The common law gives no damages for the emotional distress which any normal person experiences when someone he loves is killed or injured. The first hurdle which a plaintiff claiming damages of the kind in question must surmount is to establish he is suffering not merely grief, distress or any other normal emotion, but a positive psychiatric illness,” the university argued.