Mandela forced to pay wife
The Eastern Cape legislature will have to play nanny with Mandla Mandela's salary to ensure his estranged first wife receives her monthly allowance.
Mandela, the grandson of former president Nelson Mandela, is an ANC MP.
For the past year he has ignored a maintenance court order, handed down in May last year, instructing him to pay Tando Mabunu-Mandela maintenance of R12500 a month.
As a result, every three months after that, Mabunu-Mandela has had to approach the court to fight for her cash.
A writ would be issued and Mandela's goods would be attached.
She would also receive payment for the outstanding three months.
Yesterday, the maintenance section of the Mthatha Magistrate's Court placed a garnishee on Mandela's parliamentary salary.
He was not in court when it was issued.
A warrant for his arrest for failure to appear in court has been issued.
Our sister newspaper, The Herald, has seen the copy of the warrant.
National Prosecuting Authority spokesman Luxolo Tyali confirmed that R12500 would be deducted from Mandela's parliamentary salary.
Mabunu-Mandela had instituted criminal charges with the Bityi police station in July this year after she claimed her husband had once again skipped payments.
Mandela's bank accounts had allegedly been emptied and the sheriff no longer had access to his funds.
Mabunu-Mandela and Mandela are divorcing.
Mandela was one of the judges of the Miss World pageant held in Ordos, China at the weekend.
It is not clear when he will return home.
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Posted 274 days agonkosipeter
Mike123
Posted 274 days agoMicaParis
Posted 274 days agoJust like over the centuries, we had the likes of Theodore Rooseveldt, Benjamin Franklin and many more, by the rule of reason and natural justice those people had since vanished into the thin air, the same thing will happen to the ''Mandela'' surname, only to be witness by the precious history books!
Comrades should stop abusing their political status by using it as a ticket and licence to ''have sex with'' anybody they wish regardless of love and mutual feelings, that is wrong and also tantamount to women abuse and right to dignity of women!
I would like to advise our women about the issue of ''gold digging''! It will never lead them anywhere, get educated and work for yourselves so that abuses like that can be avoided.
Francis
Posted 274 days agoTogether with zuma 783 taxpayers expense of + R 517.700.000 (excluded theft to uplift the Spear's extended family) mandelas infertile lovers will cost peanuts.
mbongwamugabe
Posted 274 days agoi_stub_born
Posted 274 days agoHe will nevertheless recover any money with the fortune deal he made for whenever Grandpa dies and the rights of its transmission..........
The other grandson, who doesn't want to pay for his Merc, nor the miners of Aurora for three years I think.........Looks like Nelson might have been a rare mutation in that lineage, or perhaps the hereditary trait diluted after him...........
buddi
Posted 274 days agodeebee
Posted 274 days agonkosipeter
" Strike an ANC women's league and you strike a politically correct self serving marshmallow"
No rocks in that organisation. Pathetic.
UDFSupporter
Posted 274 days ago