<p style="text-align: center"><strong><u>JUDGMENT</u></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify"><strong><u>BAFFOUR J.A:</u></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify"><strong><u>INTRODUCTION</u></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify">This appeal before the court seems to revolve around a narrow compass regarding the correctness or otherwise of the order for the equal sharing of rent accruing from the property of the parties in Johannesburg, South Africa as well as equal distribution of monies in two accounts that were jointly owned by the parties. Time and again, the jurisprudence of equality is equity principle and how best it has been applied to the equities of the parties who were once marital couple comes up for consideration before the appellate courts. And the matter before us is no exception. As to whether the exercise of the discretion of the trial court in the application of equal distribution is so perverse to warrant our intervention is as at the centre of the appeal. The parties would be referred to throughout the judgment by the designations that they bore at the court below. </p><p style="text-align: justify"><strong><u>BACKGROUND</u></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify">Having been married under custom in March, 1976, the parties converted their marriage…</p>