Ex parte Goldman

In Ex parte Goldman, an important case in South African insolvency law, the court had to decide whether the document in which the debtor published his intention to surrender constituted a newspaper.

The document was the African Jewish World, "a weekly journal devoted to Jewish interests in South Africa," printed in Johannesburg and mostly in Yiddish in Hebrew characters. The advertisement itself was in the English language and characters.

The court held that this was not a newspaper as contemplated in the Act.