One of SA’s highest profile divorces has taken a new twist, notes a report in the Sunday Times. The woman is claiming their antenuptial contract is invalid because they entered into a customary marriage, which started at Nkandla, before their civil marriage. Should the judge agree with her claim, she will get half of her husband’s substantial estate, which is believed to include a private jet, various high-end properties, interests in eight companies and several luxury vehicles.

‘No antenuptial contract was entered into between the parties prior to the conclusion of the customary marriage and, accordingly, in terms of the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act (it) is a marriage in community of property and of profit and loss,’ the woman said in an amendment filed in the Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg).

She asked for R113 200 in maintenance a month, which her husband rejected, offering her a little over half that figure. But in November she was granted an interim maintenance order of R168 000 a month for herself and their children.

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