eThekwini City Manager Sipho Nzuza hospitalised after being beaten up over someone’s wife
Well, the eThekwini City Manager Sipho Nzuza is making all sorts of headlines again. Barely a few days after he was caught pants down with someone’s wife. Now it has been established the former City manager is battling for his life after being bashed.
Rumour has it that suspended eThekwini city manager Sipho Nzuza is in critical condition in a Durban hospital after allegedly being beaten up on the orders of tech tycoon Sbu Shabalala. Shabala happens to be Neo’s husband who Nzuza is living with.
Lawyers representing the Shabalalas, who were regulars on the Durban social circuit before their marriage fell apart four years ago. They were in court on Friday after Neo sought an urgent interdict against Sbu. However, Sbu happens to be the founder and CEO of Adapt IT.
This after Nzuza, with whom Neo has been in a relationship for about a year, had to undergo emergency surgery after he was allegedly beaten up by a gang of armed men at Neo’s home in the upmarket Zimbali estate in Ballito last Saturday.
eThekwini City Manager Sipho Nzuza hospitalised after being beaten up over someone’s wife
Neo claims in an affidavit that on her estranged husband’s instruction, five heavily armed men “brutally” assaulted Nzuza and threatened her and other friends. She says she now lives in fear for her life, from him and his “hired guns”.
However Sbu’s company, a major player in the tech world. However, it was established that it has an annual turnover of close to R1bn. It is now the target of an R800m takeover bid by Huge Group.
In terms of a final order granted on Friday in the Durban high court by KwaZulu-Natal judge president Achmat Jappie, Sbu has been restrained from entering the Zimbali property. He was also restrained from personally or indirectly assaulting, threatening or intimidating Neo and from “eavesdropping” on her by bugging her phones.
An interim interdict was also put in place preventing him from selling their Zimbali property. He was ordered to pay costs on a punitive scale. Sbu consented to the order, which was negotiated between the couple’s legal representatives.