The plaintiff, a practising attorney in Pretoria, sues the defendants for damages in the sum of R906 550.00, sustained when his property, Portion 5 of the farm Honingklip in the Langeberg Municipality, Division Riversdale, Western Cape Province, measuring some 616 hectares (“Honingklip” or “the plaintiff’s farm”) was extensively damaged in a fire on 26 December 2008.