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Engineering News reports that trade union Solidarity’s legal team on Friday gave the sheriff instruction to seize goods at Brian Molefe’s property in Cornwall Estate, Pretoria.
The funds will be used to pay Solidarity’s outstanding legal costs of about R600,000, as set out in a court order. The union indicated that Molefe had paid it only R100,000 within the seven-day period he had been given to settle the full amount. Solidarity stated it would sell his goods on public auction. “We will not let up until Molefe has paid every penny. These purposeful steps serve as a warning to other tax plunderers. Their days of lawlessness are numbered,” Solidarity legal services head Anton van der Bijl said in a statement issued on Friday. Molefe earlier this month tried to have the cost order against him set aside in the Constitutional Court, but his application was denied. The union advised that the Eskom Pension Fund had also not received the R10-million owed to it by Molefe and that it would be taking legal steps to recover the money from him. Meanwhile, Solidarity is waiting for the National Prosecuting Authority’s confirmation on whether it would proceed with prosecution of Molefe. Alternatively, the union will approach Advocate Gerrie Nel from AfriForum to prosecute Molefe privately.
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