British pensioners living in South Africa are taking the British government to court to force it to pay out more than R64-billion in frozen increments to British pensioners living in the Commonwealth, the Citizen newspaper reported on Friday. It said the SA Alliance of British Pensioners (SAABP), representing about 36 000 pensioners in southern Africa alone, had been granted a judicial review by a London High Court judge. The SAAPB will represent more than 500 000 retired expatriates living in former British colonies who do not receive index-linked increases each year to counteract inflation. Their counterparts in other countries do. In April last year, British pensioners living outside the Commonwealth received an annual cost of living increment of 7,4%, but in South Africa and other Commonwealth countries, many draw the same pensions they received 20 years ago. – Sapa