Hip-hop artist Slikour’s estranged wife has threatened to go to court to challenge the validity of the antenuptial contract they signed after the registration of their civil and customary marriage.
According to information received from the estranged couple’s close associate, who did not want to be named for fear of victimisation, Melissa Wilkinson allegedly discovered to her chagrin that she had signed the antenuptial contract papers, which the artist had handed over to her, after the registration of their marriage.
Wilkinson and Slikour, real name Siyabonga Metane, separated after she dumped him after accusing him of infidelity, emotional, financial and psychological abuse.
Speaking to Sunday World, a mole, who disapproves of the couple’s separation, said Wilkinson intends to obtain a court order to declare the antenuptial contract invalid because she did not read the papers before signing them. She also, according to a deep throat, neither sought legal advice nor understood the disadvantages and advantages of the contract before putting pen to paper.
Wilkinson has pleaded with Slikour to find a solution to the matter because she does not want to air their dirty laundry in court. But, said the source, it appears the artist did not cooperate. The tipster also alleged Wilkinson still did not understand what actually happened because she and Slikour agreed to get married under the customary law.
After their agreement, said the source, Slikour’s family paid an undisclosed lobola for her in 2017. Wilkison, said the source, told them that in May of the same year, she and
Slikour entered into a customary marriage in Sandton and celebrated it in line with the laws of the Republic of South Africa.
Wilkinson said later in 2017, they entered into a civil union and signed papers that were apparently about the antenuptial contract. This suggested that their nuptials subsisted with the application of the accrual system.
However, Wilkson said that should not be the case because the marriage she entered into with Silkour was in community of property. Therefore, she said, she would want their joint estate to be dissolved when the court grants her a decree of divorce so they could share the residual of their joint estate.
Wilkson challenged the validity of the antenuptial contract, saying they did not agree before signing that the contract would be applicable to their union. She said shortly before the civil marriage, Slikour asked her to reveal the value of her estate, after which he asked her to sign a marriage contract.
“She said she did not even have time to look at the so-called ANC before putting pen to paper; she just signed because Slikour asked her to do so,” said a deep throat.
She said what also worried her was that the so-called antenuptial contract stated that the two were not married, even though they were. She said the alleged contract did not even mention how their joint estate should be shared when their matrimony fell apart, said the source.
“It is for this reason that she wants to go to court and ask it to declare the contract null and void because she did not even understand its implication.”
She said after declaring the antenuptial contract invalid, said the source, she would ask the court to recognise their in community of property marriage.
Slikour declined to comment.
