Award-winning content creator and social media influencer Mihlali Ndamase has been accused by the wife of a Joburg businessman of allegedly wrecking her 11-year marriage by having an affair with her husband.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has also accused her husband of allegedly, emotionally and financially abusing her.
The businessman and Ndamase declined to comment.
“How can we comment on the matter that is before court,” said the businessman.
The matter is sub judice,” said Ndamase when talking to Sunday World on the businessman’s mobile phone.
But a source close to Ndamase said it was not true that she wrecked the businessman’s marriage.
“He [the businessman] told her that he had separated from his wife when he asked to have a relationship with her. Mihlali is a good woman with high morals and very ethical businesswoman who is family orientated. She would not have willfully fell in love with a married man,” said the source.
The woman has also accused the well-known tycoon, who also cannot be named for legal reasons, of locking her and their two children out of their R24-million Joburg mansion.
The startling revelations are contained in court papers filed at the Joburg high court by the businessman’s 33-year-old wife, who is demanding a decree of divorce, an R8.5-million house, R1.5-million for furniture and a vehicle worth R1.5-million, which he has to replace every five years, until she dies or remarries.
In the papers the woman said she and the businessman were hitched in a customary marriage on November 19, 2011, and were blessed with two children.
She said they later entered into a civil, in community of property, marriage, on November 26, 2016.
Their union, said the woman, broke down irretrievably after he had adulterous affairs with different women, she did not name, including Ndamase.
“The first defendant has abused the plaintiff emotionally, and financially.
The first defendant has committed adultery on numerous occasions throughout the course of the relationship and the marriage, which he admitted to and promised to cease,” read the papers.
“The first defendant, despite his promise to cease with his adulterous conduct, reneged on his promise and recently commenced in a (sic) adulterous relationship with one socialite personality, Ms Mihlali Ndamase, which adulterous relationship the first defendant has declared in public.”
The woman further said her husband had built a R24-million home in Joburg to live with her and their children but later changed his mind, locked them out and invited Ndamase to live with him.
He then changed door locks and instructed his security staff to bar her from entering the multi-million-rand mansion.
She said as a result, she and her husband have lived separately since April 1 this year, adding that the businessman has also been secretive about his financial affairs.
In an attempt to hide his finances, she said, her husband established a trust and cited the “love child” sired with his late mistress as the sole beneficiary.
“However, after the first defendant became aware (name withheld) was not his biological child he wanted to create a new trust to exclude (name withheld) and the plaintiff,” read the papers.
The woman further said she also wanted the businessman to pay her R100 000 a month in spousal maintenance until she dies or remarries as her income is insufficient to afford the high standard of living she enjoyed while with her husband.
The expensive life, she said, includes a fleet of expensive cars, and shopping for designer items at expensive boutique stores, among others.
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