Actress and wedding planner Sophie Ndaba is set to lose her mansion in the ritzy suburb of Featherbrook Estate in Joburg after she fell in...
Actress and wedding planner Sophie Ndaba is set to lose her
mansion in the ritzy suburb of Featherbrook Estate in Joburg after she fell
into arrears.
Mercantile Bank has applied for a judgment in the South
Gauteng High Court in Joburg on Tuesday to attach the former Generations star's
multimillion-rand manor in the luxury secured estate, according to Sunday
World.
Ndaba and her company, Sophla Trading obtained a R2.2m home
loan from the bank to purchase the house on September 15 2016. They were
required to pay R22,347 in monthly instalments for 20 years.
But the former Isidingo thespian failed to honour the
contract when she defaulted for about four months and was more than R80,000 in
arrears.
Ndaba confirmed that she was on the cusp of losing her
house. She said she fell behind with her monthly instalments because the
tenants she rented the house to defaulted on their rental payments.
"I rented the house to some people who converted the
house into an office space. The lease agreement between me and the tenants
states that they should pay the rental money into the bond account but they
failed to do so for several months," she said.
She said on learning of the application for a default
judgment to take her house she contacted the bank officials who told her that
they struggled to get hold of her because she had changed her contact details.
"But I have engaged my lawyers to write to the lawyers
of the tenants to address this matter.
"My lawyers have also written to the bank's lawyers to
inform them of our intention to oppose the judgment. But remember, it is the
bank's house and it can do whatever it wants to do with it," she said.
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