Reading Time: < 1 minuteJudge Peter Olsen has reserved judgment in the Pietermaritzburg High Court in the urgent application by members of the AmaZulu Royal family to interdict King Misuzulu from exercising any powers over the Ingonyama Trust.
The Ingonyama Trust, with the King as sole trustee, controls close to three million hectares of land in KwaZulu-Natal. The King’s uncle, Prince Mbonisi Zulu and other royal family members also want the court to interdict the Trust from paying King Misuzulu’s legal fees.
Opposing the application, King Misuzulu’s legal team argued that there…