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By Roland mpofu 
2h ago
Johannesburg – Gogo Selina Mashaba says she is homeless after her stepchildren allegedly evicted her from her marital home and is struggling to find money to pay the legal fees necessary to change ownership of the property in her name.
Mashaba says her troubles started in 2013 when she married her late husband after his first wife passed away and she moved in with him. She says her stepchildren started to resent her and told her to leave the house.
The 67-year-old says things got worse when her husband became ill and weakened due to old age. Mashaba alleges that she was verbally and physically abused and ended up obtaining a protection order.
“When my husband was hospitalized, they started beating me and telling me to get out of the house. I persevered because I didn’t want to leave my husband when he was sick. That was the moment when he needed me the most. So I stayed in the shack at the back of the main house until my husband passed away in 2019, ”says Mashaba tearfully.
Mashaba says that immediately after burying her husband she packed her bags and left everything for fear of what might happen to her since her husband left. “My husband left a will that clearly stated that I should inherit everything. As you can see it is written: “I hereby cancel my previous wills and codicils, made by my party, or individually. I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint Selina Gladys Mashaba, sole and universal heir of all my goods and effects, real estate and personal property, of any nature, wherever they may be, ”says part of the Last Will and Testament of her husband . .
However, Mashaba’s children denied all the accusations made by their mother, saying: “We have a title deed with our names on it and we don’t know the title deed that she is talking about. She must have a false title to the property and we know that she married our father in an unreliable way, so we do not even consider that marriage valid. “
When asked to present the deed to which he was referring, one of the children called the reporter and claimed that she was at the police station to open a case against us for entering her property without an appointment.
Now, Mashaba says that she lives like a poor woman in a shack in an informal settlement in Phumlamqhashi, south of Joburg, but her husband made it clear that she should enjoy the benefits of her “sweat and tears.”
Mashaba says that all she wants is to get her husband’s personal property and a part of the house if the law so requires. “I don’t want to fight with my children. I still consider them my children. All I want is for us to find peace and get what belongs to me and they get what belongs to them. I know that we cannot live together in the same house in peace and it will be better to sell the house.
“But I’m fighting to get this done because I don’t have money for lawyers. My pension subsidy is not enough, as you can see, this shack has no electricity and when it rains like these days the roof leaks.
“The lawyer I got for free last September told me there was a problem with the transfer of ownership of the house because the late wife was also on the title deed,” says Mashaba.
Glen Porter of Porter Seaber Attorneys, who was helping Mashaba pro bono, says Mashaba requires legal services related to the management of the deceased’s estates and transmission and his law firm specializes in transmission only so that he cannot help her . “We have specialized in transfer services for the last 20 years (sic) and we are not prepared for the Administration of the Dead Estate. Therefore, we cannot help the client at this stage. We notify this fact to the Council of Legal Practice in writing.
“However, once the Council on Legal Practice has instructed a law firm, to assist the client with the management of the estate of his late husband and his former deceased wife and prepared settlement and distribution accounts for both deceased assets , approved by the Superior Court Magistrate, then we can handle the transfer services related to this property, ”says Porter.
The Council on Legal Practice did not respond to our media inquiry sent a fortnight ago on how you can further help Mashaba.
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