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[1]        This is an urgent application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal (“the SCA”) in terms of section 17(1)(a)(i) and section 17(1)(a)(ii) of the Superior Courts Act 10 of 2013 (“the Superior Courts Act”), against the whole judgment and order of this Court handed down on 11 October 2022 (“the section 18 Judgment). In that judgment, this Court dismissed the applicant’s application in terms of section 18(1) and section 18(3) of the Superior Courts Act to render the judgment of this Court delivered on 09 September 2022 (“the Part B Judgment”) to be operational and executable, pending any application for leave to appeal or appeal delivered in respect thereof. It is that order that the applicant seeks to challenge before the SCA. The tenth, eleventh, and the sixteenth respondents ("the supporting respondents") have also filed their applications for leave to appeal to the SCA in similar terms against the section 18 Judgment. At the hearing of this application, both applications for the applicant and the supporting respondents were by agreement consolidated and were heard together. The third and the fifth respondents opposed both applications.