Sterklewies (Pty) Ltd t/a Harrismith Feedlot v Msimanga (456/2011) [2012] ZASCA 77; 2012 (5) SA 392 (SCA); [2012] 3 All SA 655 (SCA) (25 May 2012) per MJD Wallis JA at para [24]..
There was an express provision in the employment contracts of the former employees that they would observe the directions and requirements of their employer.
The rules and policies published by the company from time to time and displayed on notice boards and conveyed to the workers were clearly among those directions and requirements.
The former employees were accordingly obliged to observe them and comply with them. That was an express provision of the written contracts of employment.
On the unchallenged evidence of Mr Oosthuizen those rules included the rules in regard to residence in the hostel and provided that the right of residence would terminate on termination of the employment contracts.
It was accordingly an express term of each contract of employment that the former employees would vacate the hostel on termination of their contracts of employment.