Actress Phindile Gwala ordered to pay over R100K in electrical energy invoice

The Johannesburg Excessive Court docket has ordered actress Phindile Gwala-Ngandu to settle an electrical energy and utilities invoice value over R100 000 or have her house disconnected from utilizing energy.

Decide Mandla Motha dominated this week that Gwala-Ngandu, who performs Fikile on well-liked eTV soapie Imbewu: The Seed, ought to have electrical energy on the Bramley house in Johannesburg disconnected ought to she fail to settle the R115 641.98 in full inside 10 enterprise days.

The decide additionally cited the applicant within the motion, Bramley Mews Physique Company, was authorised to rent an electrician for disconnecting her electrical energy.

“If the electrical energy provide has been disconnected as set out, it’s to stay disconnected till closing fee of the quantities set out within the software. The respondent (Phindile Gwala-Ngandu) is ordered to pay the prices of this software on an legal professional and shopper scale,” learn the judgment.

“Because it seems from the discover of movement, the applicant (Bramley Mews Company) seeks an order towards the respondent (Phindile Gwala-Ngandu), for financial funds being in respect of arrear levies and electrical energy fees, that are as a result of applicant by the respondent.

“The applicant additionally seeks an order towards the respondent for disconnection of the electrical energy provide to the part, pending full fee of arrear levies and electrical energy fees. This specific aid has necessitated the launching of this courtroom software,” learn the declare.

The courtroom papers cited that the physique company obtained a courtroom judgment in June 2020 as a result of the same software for non-payment, which resulted in a warrant of execution towards Gwala’s property.

The declare learn:
Judgment was granted towards the respondent for the sum of R70 809.95 and on or about March 22 2022, a warrant of execution was issued towards the movable property of the respondent…up to now hereof, the respondent failed and alternatively uncared for, additional refused to make funds in respect of particular levies, regular levies, refuse recoveries, sewer/ effluent levies in full. As such, funds develop into due and payable to the applicant.

The papers additional allude to the bias the physique company has confronted on account of Gwala-Ngandu’s alleged non-payment.

“Whereas a failure to pay each quantity as a result of applicant is prejudicial to it, a failure to impact fee of electrical energy consumption fees is essentially the most prejudicial. The rationale for that is that the physique company is obligated, on a month-to-month foundation, to impact fee of electrical energy consumption fees in respect of each part inside its scheme to the native council,” learn the declare, including that non-payment might deplete its account, which might have an hostile impact on different members of the physique company.

“If the applicant doesn’t recuperate these funds from its members, it would proceed to advance monies to the council, on behalf of part homeowners who don’t pay for electrical energy consumption. This can deplete any financial savings which the applicant might have and can in the end trigger the applicant to have a destructive financial institution steadiness, risking a disconnection of the electrical energy provide, by the native municipality, to all of the sections and the applicant being positioned underneath administration,” added the papers.

Gwala-Ngandu had not responded to written enquiry earlier than publishing.

– Citypress