A former owner of a multimillion-rand lodge in Mpumalanga is disappointed with the conviction of the establishment’s new owner on fraud charges. He feels that the new owner’s wife should have also been found guilty.
Willem Janson sold 67.7% of eBundu Lodge, situated between Mbombela and White River, Mpumalanga, to Sibusiso Tshabalala and his wife Ntombizodwa, for R32 million in 2016, but since then business relations have soured.
Mpumalanga National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Monica Nyuswa said that, in August 2016, Tshabalala submitted four invoices to eBundu Lodge purporting to have been issued by Isizwe Chartered Accountants, which was auditing the financial records of eBundu Lodge at that time. The banking details of Isizwe were changed to those of Chuma Investments and eBundu Lodge paid these invoices believing they were payments for the accounting firm.
“The court found that the state proved beyond reasonable doubt that Tshabalala created and submitted these invoices in order to defraud Willem Janson/eBundu Lodge and that both eBundu Lodge and Isizwe Chartered Accountants suffered prejudice as a result of Sibusiso Tshabala’s actions,” she said.Multimillion-rand Blyde River Canyon project goes ahead despite lawsuit
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