Former EFF councillors owe R30,000 fee for court application, lawyer says
Rodney Manzini says the six expelled EFF officials only paid legal fees for an urgent application and not for a normal application, which they withdrew before the matter was due to be heard
Six former EFF Mogale City councillors expelled by the party in 2017 have been accused of failing to pay their legal representative.Advocate Rodney Manzini, of Mkhize Attorneys — which represented the councillors — said the former councillors‚ led by then EFF chief whip Smanga Mkhumbeni‚ owed him about R30‚000 in outstanding legal fees.This was after the councillors instructed Manzini to launch an urgent application at the High Court in Johannesburg when the EFF’s central command team expelled them. They were accused of defying the organisation by voting with the ANC in favour of the municipality’s budget on July 11‚ a claim that Mkhumbeni has denied.Manzini said the six councillors only paid legal fees for the urgent application and not for the normal application, which was meant to be heard in court on December 5. The councillors withdrew the application before the matter was due to be heard.Mkhumbeni brought the application along with Eric Baloyi‚ Nomonde Nkatu‚ Nhlanhla Shiluban...
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