Legal dispute over new Zulu king put on hold

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The legal dispute over who will succeed the late King Goodwill Zwelithini as monarch of the Zulu nation will only be argued next year.

She was appointed regent during the time of mourning but passed away onBoth applications are being opposed by members of the royal family, including Prince Misuzulu and Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi.

In heads of argument, the respondents said, in essence, that both issues are to be determined in terms of customary law and any decision on the marriage issue, or the impeachment of the will, have no bearing whatsoever on the succession dispute.“In any event, the marriage issue is riddled with disputes of facts which fall to be referred to trial or oral evidence,” the written argument states.

Given that all the marriages had been “dissolved by death”, any legal opinion on their status would be a matter of “historical curiosity”.he validity of the will was a “red herring” because who succeeds was to be determined by customary law and there was incontrovertible evidence that the royal family had spoken and, at a meeting in May this year, had identifiedOn the allegation that the late king’s will was a forgery, this had been negated by an expert handwriting analyst.

 

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