Court hears case on Judge Yvonne Mokgoro’s will

THE children of well-known former Constitutional Court Judge Yvonne Mokgoro, who died in May last year, turned to court in a bid for the Master of the High Court to accept what they said is the last will and testament of their mother made in 2021.

- ZELDA VENTER

Judge Mokgoro made an earlier will in 2014, but her children told the Kimberley High Court that the earlier will fell away as she made another will seven years later.

While both wills are basically the same, the only difference is in clause 3 of both wills. In the 2014 will in reference to this clause, the late judge left her share in a property to her life partner, David Mmelesi. In terms of her 2021 will, she left her share to her children and a grandchild.

Her son Ithatheng Mokgoro is the executor of her estate. None of the respondents, which included the Master, opposed the application, other than her life partner.