QUESTION $2$

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Mary$-$Anne and Thabo decided to visit a local store at their nearest mall. The store sells branded cutlery crockery, hand painted vases and ceramic pots. Whilst browsing through an isle in the store, Mary$-$Anne knocks over a ceramic pot that breaks. Mary$-$Anne becomes deoply upeet and immediately apoiggises to the store owner who points her to a sign localed within the store which states as follows:

Doar: Customer

Remember: "Yyou break i$,$ you buy if$".$

Many Thanks...

$2\mathrm{.}1$ Discuss whether Mary$-$Anne will be liable to pay for the ceramic pot that broke. In your answer, you are

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required to make reference to the relevant section of the Consumer Protection Act $68$ of $2008.$

$22$ SA Consumers have rights and can fle a complaint against suppliers of goods and services. The Consumer Protection Act gives the consumer several fundamental consumer rights, in line with the Constitution of the Repubicic of South Africa, and the United Nations Guidelines on Consumer Protection.

Discuss the nights associated with consumer protection.

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