The Pretoria High Court dismissed an appeal attempt against the lover of late Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota, following concerns over his estate by his wife Cynthia Lekota.
The late veteran politician and Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota’s lover Luzelle Adams lost her legal bid for leave to appeal an earlier judgment that declared him incapable of managing his affairs from May 25, 2025 until his death in March this year.
The court also earlier found that Adams, the mother of his child, controlled his finances while she knew he was incapable of handling his own affairs.
In refusing leave to appeal, Judge Anthony Millar, sitting in the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, on Monday said he is not persuaded that another court would come to a different conclusion or that there is some other compelling reason why leave to appeal should be granted. The court also slapped her for the second time with the legal costs.
It was claimed that Adams, an advocate, "emptied" Lekota’s bank account weeks before his death. In his previous judgment, Judge Millar found that Adams had failed to take the court into her confidence and explain the payments to herself from the joint bank accounts of Lekota and his wife Cynthia, starting from May last year up to February this year.
