Socialite and businesswoman Uyanda Mbuli has been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing.

This was the decision of the Midrand Magistrate’s Court yesterday, where Mbuli appeared for a bail hearing.

She was infamously arrested earlier this month at the house co-owned by her and her estranged husband, Sisa Mbuli.

The famous couple announced their divorce in February after ten years of marriage and have since respectively taken out court orders prohibiting any contact.

It was thought that Uyanda was in violation of that order when she arrived on 4 May at the Midrand home she and Sisa share.

She was arrested and had to spend a night in jail, an experience she later said was  “the most painful 24 hours of my life.” The arrest made headlines partly because she was apparently in a dressing gown and requested to change her clothes. When she then failed to come out of the house, a female officer had to be sent in to arrest her.

But the court found that Uyanda did nothing wrong, as the house belongs to both her and her husband, meaning she is fully entitled to be there.

While she has not given any comment, her spokesperson Simphiwe Majola told the Sowetan newspaper: “We are hurt that lies were reported that she was found naked when she was merely taking a shower at her home during the arrest.”

Still, it might be a matter of tit for tat. In March Uyanda laid a similar complaint of her husband violating the order she obtained, but police were unable to locate him.

By James Francis