Mpisane mansion raided again as Sars pounces on controversial family
Image: Thuli Dlamini
South African Revenue Services (Sars) officials once again swooped on power couple Shauwn and S’bu Mpisane’s plush mansion in the leafy suburb of La Lucia on Friday.
This in a bid to attach some of their assets in an ongoing dispute over what they owe the taxman.
It was the second time this week that Sars officials descended on the property, following a visit on Wednesday with heavily armed private security and Special Investigation Unit members who arrived in unmarked vehicles.
Sars is involved in an ongoing dispute over what the Mpisanes, and their Zikhulise Group, owe the taxman. Sars made two successful court applications — one in Durban and the other in Pretoria — in 2016, in terms of which assets were to be preserved to cover an alleged debt of R141m.
Curators Henk Strydom and Tshifhiwa Mudzusi were tasked with identifying assets but they said they were constantly hampered by the Mpisanes. Sars then withheld payment to them and they insisted they could no longer do their job.