Irrespective, you will have to pay the rent.
What you seek is to claim damages based on an impugned credit record, to your mind, the equivalent of one month rent.
Forgetting, the failure to inform you of the new payment method, he gave you a 20 day period to rectify the issue, failing which he would then list you.
A plaintiff is obligated to mitigate his damage, meaning, that if you failed to pay within the 20 days, then you are the author of your own mischief and solely responsible for the damage that flowed from there.
Yes, the landlord breached the contract, more from oversight than maliciousness. You should have then , as per contract, given him 7 days to rectify. Etc, etc.
Given that had you approached a lawyer, for the above advice, it would have probably just cost you R700-R1000.00. Further, a lawyer , with doubtful ethics, may even have said yes, lets fight this, pay the deposit of R20 000, and lets get it on.
So, in answer, for free, as per all the other posts, let it go and move on. Probably, as it stands this aggravation has cost you more than the rent and maybe an extra bank charge, in terms of harm to your health, both physical and mental.
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