"An incredible victory for the poor," is how businessman Wendy Appelbaum described the Western Cape High Court's declaring of 15 low earning Stellenbosch workers' emoluments attachment orders (EAOs) as "unlawful, invalid and of no force and effect"... Appelbaum began her quest for justice more than two years ago when she discovered that some of her farmworkers were battling to make ends meet because of their EAOs... In many of the applicants' cases, Desai said, the clerk of the court issued the EAOs, attaching their earnings without any evaluation of their ability to survive on their remaining salaries..."[T]he judgment will no doubt be appealed, in which case the effect of the judgment will be suspended pending the outcome of the appeal."...It will be very interesting to see how employers react to the judgment, said Ian Wason, CEO of South Africa's largest debt counsellor, DebtBusters...