New owners want Mandela grandsons out of his house

Ndaba and Mbuso said to have ignored request to leave Houghton mansion

- By Ngwako Malatji

New owners of former president Nelson Mandela's Joburg house have applied for an order to evict the late statesman's grandchildren from the multi-million-rand mansion.

Iterele Investment Corporation and its directors, Petrus Gcinumuzi Malindi and William Henry Trengove, who are the first applicant, second applicant and third applicant in that order, have applied for an injunction in the Johannesburg High Court to kick out the homeless Mbuso and Ndaba Mandela from the Houghton, northern Johannesburg, home of the late former statesman.

In the papers which Sunday World has seen, Iterele Investment Corporation, Malindi and Trengove said they wanted Ndaba and Mbuso to be evicted from the property, which the former liberation movement leader shared with his widow Graça Machel, within seven days of the order being served on the two, who are cited together with the City of Joburg as therespondents.

They seek an order that says: