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TimesLIVE
2 days ago
- Automotive
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Mansour Ojjeh McLaren car collection could fetch $70m at auction
A unique collection of 20 barely used McLaren road cars that belonged to the Formula One team's late co-owner Mansour Ojjeh is being put up for sale, with hopes a very wealthy buyer might keep it together. Classic and historic car dealer Tom Hartley Jnr announced on Sunday he had been appointed by Ojjeh's family to handle the sale, which could fetch more than $70m (R1,242,262,000). Hartley also oversaw the sale earlier this year of former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone's collection of 69 historic grand prix and Formula One racers to Red Bull heir Mark Mateschitz. Ojjeh's collection includes the last model of the McLaren F1 to be built, finished in a unique "Yquem" colour that was subsequently renamed "Mansour Orange" by McLaren and which has just over 1,800km on the clock. Only 106 of the McLaren F1 sportscars were made between 1992 and 1998, and a 1995 one that had done less than 390km sold for $20.4m (R362,119,380) in a 2021 auction at Pebble Beach, California. All the other cars are in the same orange colour and all are the final chassis made of each model. Apart from the F1 and a P1 GTR, the cars are all unused and have been maintained by the manufacturer. Accompanying photographs showed them displayed at the Bahrain F1 circuit.
TimesLIVE
23-06-2025
- Health
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'The pain is indescribable': Grieving SA mom pleads for help after au pair daughter dies in US
The mother of 27-year-old Thobile Tshabalala who died earlier this month in the US where she was working as an au pair is appealing for support to repatriate her body to SA. In a GoFundMe summary which has been set up to help her family bring her home, Tshabalala's mother, Nthabiseng Mnisi, said she was devastated. 'My beautiful daughter, my shining star, left this world far from home, in the US. She went to America last year to work. Unfortunately, she got sick in April and she was let go,' she said. 'The pain of losing her is indescribable, but what's equally unbearable is the financial burden that now weighs me down,' she said. Tshabalala experienced a severe mental health crisis in April, just a few weeks after arriving in the US as part of an au pair programme. 'Thobile joined the au pair programme and was deployed to the US. In April, she experienced a mental breakdown and was coerced into breaking her match while in a compromised mental state, resulting in the termination of her contract,' said family representative Kholekile Mnisi. Mnisi said after the termination, Tshabalala was allegedly left without support. 'The programme allegedly failed to provide Thobile with an immediate place of safety, leaving her vulnerable and without adequate support,' said Mnisi. According to the family, after losing her placement, Tshabalala travelled to Phoenix, Arizona, and later to New Jersey in the hope of returning home through a friend who had promised to help her secure a flight back. While travelling from New Jersey to Ohio, she collapsed and was hospitalised. Her condition deteriorated rapidly. Tshabalala died on June 8. The family has since launched a GoFundMe campaign with a goal of raising R362,104 to cover the costs of bringing her body back home. So far R325,314 has been raised through 483 donations.
