HIGH COURT ORDER:
ANC Women’s League too broke to pay bill
An attempt by travel agency that is owed R6.3m by the Women’s League to recoup money by auctioning off league’s assets a flop
The ANC Women’s League has racked up a multimillion-rand accommodation bill but is too broke to pay it off despite the high court issuing an order directing the league to pay back the money. An attempt by a travel agency that is owed R6.3m by the Women’s League to recoup the money by auctioning off the league’s assets was a flop. Atlantis Corporate Travel, which has been the Women’s League’s go-to travel agency over the years, obtained a high court order against the ANC structure, following the league’s failure to pay for accommodation services secured through the agency. The company tried to auction off the Women League’s assets, without much success, it said. Atlantis Corporate Travel said the Women’s League had conceded that it was too broke to honour the repayments mandated by the High Court in Johannesburg. The agency’s group legal head, Spencer Samuel, said the principal debt was R6.3m and went up to more than R8m when interest was factored in. "We have been approached by them...
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