MANDLA Mandela’s legal team failed yesterday in a last-ditch attempt to stop the sale of 50 of his cows to pay outstanding legal bills to Cape Town attorney Randall Titus.
The Mvezo chief’s team of advocate Matthew Mpahlwa and attorney Arnie Immerman submitted an urgent application in the Mthatha High Court to try to stop the sale hours before it was scheduled to go ahead at around 10am.
Immerman later told the Daily Dispatch that a high court judge decided the matter was not urgent.
“She read the papers and decided the matter did not have to be treated as a matter of urgency,” he said.
When asked what steps they would now take, he said he would wait for further instructions.
The Saturday Dispatch later established that the sale of execution did go ahead as planned yesterday morning at Mvezo Great Place, but no cows were sold as no one turned up for the auction.
This was confirmed by the sheriff of the high court, HM Ntsikeni, when contacted around 11am yesterday morning.
“The cows were not sold because no one showed up to bid during the execution of sale,” he said.
Mandla could neither confirm nor deny the failed attempt saying: “I don’t know anything about that.”
The Dispatch reported previously that Titus had taken Mandla, his former client, to court over outstanding legal fees for various cases in which he had represented him. These include the exhumation case brought against Mandla by Mandela family members.
When the sheriff of the court in Mthatha served the court judgment at the Mvezo Great Place he reportedly attached 50 cows prompting Titus to advertise a sale in execution for yesterday.
Titus was also quoted last week as saying nothing would be allowed to jeopardise the sale.
Yesterday he told the Dispatch that he had suspected “shenanigans”. “The cows were being sold on the site of Mandla’s homestead and if you are a member of the community I would suspect you would be intimidated.”
It was envisaged that at a suggested R7000 per head, the sale of the cattle would net around R350000. — sikhon@dispatch.co.za
Mandla fails in court bid to stop sale
The Mvezo chief’s team of advocate Matthew Mpahlwa and attorney Arnie Immerman submitted an urgent application in the Mthatha High Court to try to stop the sale hours before it was scheduled to go ahead at around 10am.
Immerman later told the Daily Dispatch that a high court judge decided the matter was not urgent.
“She read the papers and decided the matter did not have to be treated as a matter of urgency,” he said.
When asked what steps they would now take, he said he would wait for further instructions.
The Saturday Dispatch later established that the sale of execution did go ahead as planned yesterday morning at Mvezo Great Place, but no cows were sold as no one turned up for the auction.
This was confirmed by the sheriff of the high court, HM Ntsikeni, when contacted around 11am yesterday morning.
“The cows were not sold because no one showed up to bid during the execution of sale,” he said.
Mandla could neither confirm nor deny the failed attempt saying: “I don’t know anything about that.”
The Dispatch reported previously that Titus had taken Mandla, his former client, to court over outstanding legal fees for various cases in which he had represented him. These include the exhumation case brought against Mandla by Mandela family members.
When the sheriff of the court in Mthatha served the court judgment at the Mvezo Great Place he reportedly attached 50 cows prompting Titus to advertise a sale in execution for yesterday.
Titus was also quoted last week as saying nothing would be allowed to jeopardise the sale.
Yesterday he told the Dispatch that he had suspected “shenanigans”. “The cows were being sold on the site of Mandla’s homestead and if you are a member of the community I would suspect you would be intimidated.”
It was envisaged that at a suggested R7000 per head, the sale of the cattle would net around R350000. — sikhon@dispatch.co.za
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