Tekkie Town founder Braam van Huyssteen is seeking R4.7m in damages from Steinhoff-controlled Pepkor and its top executives.
“In terms of the lease agreement, all the improvements on that building were to be for the benefit of the lessor, the landlord. They literally stripped the building. They removed all the storage space, they unbolted and stripped out all the shelving. They even went as far as to break out a walk-in fridge in a cafeteria that was set up on the premises,” said Mostert.
"We have had to spend R5m to date to get the building back into a workable state. We have tenanted the buildings with tenants that include, among others, Mr Tekkie.” He said some of the fittings and other goods in the distribution centre that had been stripped out had been offered to third parties far below value on the “express condition” that these organisations could not sell the goods back to Van Huyssteen or the “premises where they were installed previously”.However, Pepkor said it “vehemently denies any claims of sabotage or malicious damage" and that the property “was left in a much better condition that it was received in”.
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