Johannesburg - A court application for the removal of
trustees by former president Nelson Mandela's children has been struck off the
roll, the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright said on Monday.
The ongoing battle revolves around the removal of George
Bizos, Tokyo Sexwale, and Bally Chuene as directors of Harmonieux Investment
Holdings and Magnifique Investment Holdings.
The application to remove them, brought by Makaziwe
Mandela and Zenani Mandela-Dlamini, was removed from the roll for hearing this
week by notice of removal, said Norton Rose Fulbright spokeswoman Candice
Collins.
The firm, which represents Bizos, Sexwale, and Chuene,
said that after Ismail Ayob withdrew as the attorney for the Mandela children,
the court directed them to provide a new address for service by Friday and to
file further affidavits by 30 August.
Also on Monday, Mandela's grandson Nkosi Zwelivelile
Mandela condemned the women's action as a blatant attempt to disregard and
undermine decisions Mandela made while he was "strong".
"I consider the action by my relatives as a blatant
abuse of the elderly.
"Why wait until the sponsor of a trust is not well
to question decisions that he made [a] long time ago?" he asked.
He considered the court action nothing more than an
attempt to "loot Nkosi Dalibhunga's [Mandela] money that he has so
carefully set out how it must benefit the family, and who must guide decisions
relating to that".
He believed all the people appointed by his grandfather
were men of integrity, who had always had his grandfather's confidence and
support.
"All of us are mere beneficiaries and should be
grateful that Nkosi Dalibhunga was kind enough to consider our needs through
this trust and we should, therefore, avoid this type of actions that clearly
infringe on his dignity," he said.
