High Court grants burial rights to first wife of taxi boss

THE Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday granted the first wife of taxi boss Caiphus Mvana Zwane the right to bury him.

- NOMONDE ZONDI

The court dismissed the will presented by Hlengiwe Zwane, the second wife, which proposed an alternate burial location, finding that it had been altered at the last minute.

Acting Judge Senzo Luthuli delivered the ruling, dismissing the will presented by the second wife, Zwane.

"I regard the unnumbered penultimate paragraph, which purportedly contains the wishes of the deceased regarding his burial, as inconsistent with the language used in and the context of the rest of the document, and I regard it to be a recent insertion and it is therefore disregarded," Acting Judge Senzo Luthuli ruled.

Thokozile, married under customary law since December 1984, filed an urgent application on February 18 to interdict Hlengiwe, married under civil law, from burying their husband in Bergville.