Inside Mbuso Mandela's past and present troubles

Mbuso Mandela's name trended for all the wrong reasons this week when he was arrested for a carjacking at his late grandfather, iconic politician Nelson Mandela's former Houghton mansion in Johannesburg.

Mbuso, 33, was arrested on Wednesday along with a woman believed to be his girlfriend and three other men after the Uber driver's hijacked vehicle was found on the premises.

Mbuso Mandela has not been charged. remains the subject of a hijacking incident

However, only four other suspects were in the dock at the Johannesburg Magistrates' Court on Friday.

State prosecutor Tshepo Mahange Ka Mzizi told Judge Johan Hellmann that the state had decided not to add a fifth suspect to arrest. [Mandela’s grandson] Due to lack of evidence while police conducted further investigation.

The remaining four people are accused of robbing, kidnapping and assaulting an Uber driver and hijacking his vehicle on Louis Botha Street in Oakland on the morning of Wednesday, January 9.

The case was adjourned until February 17.

Hijacked Uber car recovered at Nelson Mandela's Houghton home

Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) spokesperson Zolani Fila said officers acted on information from a vehicle tracking company. They followed the white Toyota Corolla to Horton's dilapidated home on 12th Street.

Officers also discovered and seized an unlicensed firearm during the raid.

Mbuso Mandela “disrespects his ancestors''

talk to Sowetan LIVE After Mbuso's arrest, Johannes Kasanga, the property's caretaker, claimed that the late president's grandson had “robbed the dignity of this house”.

“I am disgusted that my grandson has turned the home of an honorable man into a place of crime. He committed a crime in the home of our free fathers and disrespected our ancestors.

“He took away the dignity of this house. Even though the house was quiet during the day, my grandson was always inviting friends over for drinks, going out and coming home late. “I do,” said Cassandra, who has worked at the house for four years.

'Black sheep in the family': Mandela's troubled grandson Mbuso

Mbuso has made headlines in the past for charges including assault, drug addiction, rape and failure to pay child support.

Mr Mbuso's father was the late Magkat Mandela, who was often referred to as the “black sheep of the family”.

Mbuso Mandela: “Rap Sheet” of Charges and Arrests

2012

Alleged affair with Mandla Mandela's ex-wife

A heated argument ensued in public after Mr Mbuso and his half-brother Mandla accused him of having an affair with his then-wife Anaas Grimaud..

At a press conference in 2012, Mandla made the bombshell that his son was the product of an illegal affair between his brother and Grimaud.

His claims followed earlier accusations by Mr Ndaba, one of Mr Mandela's grandchildren, that Mr Mandela was illegitimate.

According to Los Angeles Timesthis was an apparent effort to overthrow him as Mwezo chief of the Abasembu clan, as shortly before Nelson Mandela's death, the family had been fighting over the famous Mandela name, and the money it might generate. It was.

2015

The brother files a theft charge against Mbuso. Pharmaceutical claims

Back in 2015, Mbuso's brother Ndaba filed a theft charge against Mbuso for allegedly stealing money from him to buy drugs.

sunday world Ndaba reported that a police report claimed Mbuso took more than $6000 (approximately R114,653) from a room at Houghton's home while on a business trip.

According to intraocular lens, Mbuso is “Outpatient” at a drug rehabilitation center at that time.

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parenting battle

In 2018, two years after inheriting a whopping $3.1 million (approximately R50.3 million) from her grandfather's estate, Mbuso claimed she had “no money” to pay child support.

This comes after his ex-partner Gugu Keswa dragged him to court for repeatedly failing to pay child support for their then five-year-old daughter.

2017

rape case

The father of a 15-year-old teenage schoolgirl filed a rape case against Mbuso in 2017.

However, lawyers for Mandela's grandson maintained that the sex was consensual, and the charges were subsequently provisionally dropped pending further investigation.

2022

Unlicensed firearms and drug arrests

In 2022, Mbuso will He was arrested for possession of an unlicensed firearm and a substance believed to be a drug.

Ndaba bailed him out in a post on Twitter (now X), saying he was in the “wrong company”.

Confession of assault on girlfriend

That same year, Mbuso confessed to abusing his girlfriend in an Instagram post (now deleted).

“Why don't you all sit down? My name is Mbuso Mandela and I am an abuser of women,” he said.

“I stuck my girlfriend's head through a window and a trellidor. I strangled her. She wants me to admit it, so I'm admitting it in front of everyone. Thank you.”

“I called him a bluff” – Mbuso’s girlfriend denies Trelidor incident

In a surprising development, his girlfriend (whose name is unknown) uploaded a video denying that Mbuso had laid hands on her.

“Hello, everyone. So yesterday Mbuso posted a video saying that he is a woman abuser and that he abused me. I am taking this video just to show that he is not abusing me. I don't know why…well, I understand why he posted it.

“In our angry little fight, I accused him of bluffing and said he would never try to tarnish his reputation, and that was wrong of me. I fully admit that. ”

The woman was wearing what looked like underwear and said, “As you can see, I don't have any bruises and my face is fine.I'm not sure where he put me through the Trelidor, but I'm sure it's swollen.''

“But you noticed, there's a blue mark there, that probably happened on Thursday when I was out at St. I bump into people and get bruises and bruise easily. Yes.”

Family feud over Nelson Mandela's Houghton home

The Citizen newspaper Itumeleng Mafisa previously reported on the bitter family feud over Mr Mandela's family home in Houghton. At least three of his grandchildren were preparing court papers to contest the potential sale of the property.

Late last year, Ndaba Mandela said: sunday times Mr Mandela's aunt Makaziwe, who is his eldest daughter, was “trying to take away the house” from Mr Mandela and his brothers Mbuso and Andile.

Mandela's once proud home is in a dire state of disrepair

A tourist attraction and home to an anti-apartheid icon who died in 2013, it once hosted global celebrities such as supermodel Naomi Campbell and pop star Michael Jackson, and is home to former U.S. President Building・Clinton was also a “regular customer.”

But it has fallen into a sad state of disrepair.

David Fleminger of the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation told The Citizen that the house could be worth at least R6 million if sold. Yet, despite its heritage and potential business value, its current poor condition is impacting its value.