Mandela’s grandson Mandla/FILE
Mandla Mandela owes Randall Titus & Associates “approximately half a million rand ($49,000)”, firm director Randall Titus told AFP Thursday.
“We’ve obtained a judgement against Mr. Mandela,” he said, adding that the sheriff would seize Mandla Mandela’s assets.
The firm represented Mandla in several cases, most famously in July, when he lost a court battle with 16 family members while the Nobel peace laureate was critically ill in hospital.
Mandla was brought to court for unilaterally exhuming the remains of Mandela’s three dead children from the family graveyard in Qunu in 2011 and rebury them in Mvezo, where he is a traditional chief.
The two villages are some 30 kilometres (18 miles) apart in the Eastern Cape province.
The remains were those of Mandla’s own father Magkatho, who died in 2005; Mandela’s eldest son Thembekile, who died in 1969; and Makaziwe, a nine-month-old infant who died in 1948.
After losing the case, Mandla lashed out in a televised media conference, branding his relatives gold-diggers and even accusing one of his brothers of impregnating his wife.
Local media later reported the other family members received free legal aid, though some are company directors.
The older Mandela, 95, has been receiving treatment at his Johannesburg home since September 1 after nearly three months in hospital in what was described as a critical but stable condition.
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