Feared Lawyer Andreas
of (86 000. Gugu said the issue was that the plot was evaluated to (220 000 and ‘I don’t know who sold it’. “At the Master’s Office, we were forced to continue with Andreas, yet we did not want him. They said he would not do anything without involving me. He went on to sell it.”
Judge Majahenkhaba Dlamini enquired if the plot was not sold by Nkambule and she said that was possible.
The judge also asked Gugu what became of the policy and she alleged that they did not receive anything from it.
Gugu said the master told her to claim at the bank and she was told at Nedbank that she had no right to claim it as the executrix, because it was under attorneys. She stated that the bank did not put that in writing.
Judge Maxine Langwenya asked who the attorneys were and she said ‘they said it was Andreas’. Gugu submitted that the motor vehicles were sold, except for one that was non-running.
Judge Langwenya also enquired from Gugu as to what she had done as the executrix.
Policy
She narrated that she was informed at the Master’s Office that her duties included collecting what had been collected and she brought the issue of Liberty Life policy to the attention of the master and the homestead at Nkwalini =one 4. “I did not collect anything. I requested that the file be closed but I was told that Andreas had to be written to. They ended up telling me that they are afraid of Andreas and he was not responding to letters written to him,” alleged Gugu.
Judge Lorraine Hlophe asked who had said that and Gugu told the commission that she did not know because officers in the Master’s Office did not introduce themselves.
Judge Hlophe said the officers should consider wearing name tags. Judge President Sifiso Nsibande asked what happened to the deceased’s Will and she said it was given to the family elders.
Master of the High Court Phumzile Thomo said one of the siblings, who are all sisters, complained that Gugu did not want them at the =one 4 homestead and she was renting out the property.
Gugu, however, denied that. She said there was a three-bedroom house as well as her two-room house, which she was occupying. She is alleged to be residing in the Republic of South Africa.
The master said (80 000 was paid from Liberty Life to Dunseith Attorneys and there was a letter from Liberty Life dated May 12, 1998 to that effect.
She also told the commission that the master had consented to the sale of the plot at Ngwane Park for (130 000 and that Dunseith Attorneys drew up a distribution account, reflecting the policy and plot.
Gugu maintained that they received nothing from the estate.
Thomo said proceeds of the sale were deposited at the Master’s Office and the money was still there.