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War erupts over Mthimkhulu’s former law office

Dumezweni Mthimkhulu.PIC.KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Dumezweni Mthimkhulu.PIC.KENNEDY RAMOKONE

A legal battle has ensued between Lone Langa Masire T/A Masire Legal Consultants who have whisked their landlord Kgadimo Kelebale to court to bar her from accessing her property.

The law firm has filed an urgent application requesting the court to interdict and restrain Kelebale from evicting them, pending the payment and/ or recovery by way of court order, the amount of P100,000.00, paid to her by the law firm in advance of rentals in anticipation of a new lease agreement.

Kelebale argues that the money was for rental arrears dating back to when the law firm was sublet into the building by the late Meshack Mthimkhulu’s D.M Mthimkhulu Attorneys. Mthimkhulu had signed a two year lease from 2017 which lapsed in 2019, and the parties had to a limited time, continued with its conditions being exercised in protraction.

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