DHAKA: Lawyers for apartheid icon Nelson Mandela’s eldest grandson said they have gone to court over unpaid legal fees after a well-publicised court feud with relatives while the peace icon lay in hospital.

Mandla Mandela owes Randall Titus & Associates ‘approximately half a million rand‘, company director Randall Titus told media on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.

‘We’ve obtained a judgement against Mr Mandela,’ he said, adding that the sheriff would seize Mandla Mandela’s assets.

The company represented Mandla in several cases, most famously in July, when he lost a court battle with 16 family members while the Nobel peace laureate was critically ill in hospital.

BDST: 1555 HRS, NOV 07, 2013
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