Sereetsi drags African Attire On Fleek to court
Sharon Mathala | Tuesday February 21, 2023 06:00
Sereetsi further accuses the organisers of not allowing him to perform at the other scheduled events despite their contract agreement. The case came before the Gaborone High Court on Thursday. The contract, according to court documents seen by The Monitor, was supposed to also include other instalments of the event in Gaborone, Francistown, Maun, Serowe and Palapye totalling a performance fee of P83,000. “Further, and in terms of the agreement, the defendant was under obligation to effect the payment to the plaintiff in full, seven days before any scheduled event,” read court papers. Sereetsi tells the court that because the parties had agreed on the dates, the band reserved the dates for the event and thus did not take any bookings on those dates in anticipation that they were booked for the African Attire On Fleek event.
However, according to Sereetsi, the working relationship took a turn for the worst when the organisers failed to pay for the Francistown event. “The plaintiff duly rendered the performance on November 13, 2021 (at Tashy's) as agreed and expectation that the defendant will abide by the contract between the parties. However, the defendant breached the agreement in that he staged a music event in Francistown on December 11, 2021, and failed to pay the plaintiff seven days before the event, resulting in the plaintiff being unable to perform at the event,” Sereetsi further tells court in the papers. Sereetsi argues that he tried in vain to compel the event organisers to abide by the terms of the contract. The breach of contract by the event organisers, according to Sereetsi, led to a financial loss on his part. “The defendant has not provided any reasons why he did not pay the plaintiff as agreed for the Francistown event, further the defendant failed to enable the plaintiff to perform in other events which the plaintiff was contracted to perform,” Sereetsi further argues.
The case was postponed to a later date for argument.