The fight over control of the late Nkulumane Member of Parliament, Thamsanqa Mahlangu, surges on as her widow, Brenda Zaranyika has made a High Court application to revoke the appointment of Pretty Maphosa as an executor of her husband's estate and requesting that the Assistant Master of the High Court, a Mr Antonio recuse himself from the matter.
In court papers filed recently, the widow, Zaranyika, cited Pretty Maphosa as the First Respondent and the Deputy Master of the High Court in his official capacity as the Second Respondent.
In the papers she noted that she is the deceased’s surviving spouse having married him customarily on 28 April 2007 and they have a seven-year-old son while Mahlangu had another child, a 17-year-old boy with another woman.
She further stated that on 14 January this year she wrote a letter to the Assistant Master of the High Court advising him of her objection to the appointment of Maphosa as the executor of the Estate Late Thamsanqa Mahlangu DRB 1146/`15.
Zaranyika claimed the two children have been reduced to destitution as the executor of the estate has allegedly neglected to pay for the fees from the estate or provide funds pending finalization of the estate.
- Sunday News
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