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Prominent lawyer, Advocate Tiisetso Sello-Mafatle, has failed in her bid to place her family’s vast commercial interests under judicial management. Advocate Sello-Mafatle had sought the judicial management order after accusing her husband, Teboho Mafatle, of dissipating the family’s business resources on a string of mis tresses and other activities she had not consented to.
But the High Court has begged to differ with the top lawyer. Its view is that the couple’s issues stem more from marital disputes other than the alleged mismanagement of the businesses by Mr Mafatle.
In a judgment delivered on 13 July 2026, Justice Moneuoa Kopo ruled that Adv Sello Mafatle had failed to prove that the seven family-owned companies were being mismanaged or stripped of assets. Instead, the court found that the disputes stemmed from the breakdown of the couple’s marriage rather than any corporate crisis.
Justice Kopo discharged an earlier provisional order placing the companies under judicial management, saying the application relied largely on hearsay and allegations that could not be resolved on affidavit evidence.
Adv Sello-Mafatle had asked the Commercial Division of the High Court to assume control of seven companies jointly owned with her husband, Mr Mafatle, alleging that he had diverted company funds and assets to finance lavish lifestyles for women she claimed were his mistresses while secretly amassing wealth behind her back.
