WORKERS yesterday stopped demolishing a controversial R8.1-million Kenton-on-Sea mansion after it emerged the Ndlambe Municipality had not yet approved its demolition.

Owner Matthew Lester yesterday said he was absolutely stunned to hear that he was illegally breaking down the house despite being given a six-month Supreme Court of Appeal order late last year to demolish it by June 6 this year.

PAINSTAKING PROCESS: Household furniture and other items have been packed away for moving from Matthew Lesters Kenton-on-Sea house in preparation for the court ordered demolition Picture: DAVID MACGREGOR

The Rhodes University tax expert, who is also a popular columnist and financial whiz, was reacting to comments to the Daily Dispatch by Ndlambe Municipalitys attorney Brin Brody.

Brody, of Wheeldon, Rushmere & Cole Attorneys in Grahamstown, said that any demolition taking place was without the approval of the municipality.

The [Ndlambe municipal] council is currently considering his architects motivation of how the proposed demolition will take place. Until approval is given he cannot demolish anything.

Lester yesterday said he had decided to stop the demolition although one-and-a-half months of the SCA six-month deadline had already passed.

I am absolutely stunned. Brin Brody was informed by my architect Francois Theron two weeks ago about the demolition and he is deliberately making it [the demolition] as nasty as he can.

Senior communications officer at Ndlambe, Cecil Mbolekwa, said: The meeting that was to consider the demolishing plan was to be held on 30 January 2014 but did not take place. The planned meeting is now scheduled to take place on February 27.

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Demolition of the Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis is expected to resume within days.

The task of taking down the former home of the Minnesota Vikings football team was halted Monday afternoon when a portion of the building fell out of sequence, according to Mortenson Construction, which is the construction manager for the new stadium project.

Mortenson spokesman Cam Snyder said Tuesday that work may resume within the next day or two. Crews will definitely be back at it sometime this week, he added.

While crews were demolishing a ring beam section on the Metrodomes northeast side at about 1 p.m. Monday, an adjacent ring beam fell out of sequence, Mortenson senior vice president John Wood said in a statement Monday afternoon.

No one was injured and no equipment was damaged, and all debris fell within the specified safety zone, Wood added. Demolition activity was put on hold while engineers and demolition contractors investigated.

Foundation work on other areas of the project site had already resumed, Wood said Monday.

The Metrodome is being razed to make way for the new $975 million Vikings stadium. Golden Valley-based Mortenson is the construction manager and Little Canada-based Frattalone Cos. is the demolition subcontractor.

Demolition was moving along quickly until the setback on Monday afternoon.

Last Thursday, a wrecking ball attached to a mobile crane smashed into the northeast exterior of the building. It worked alongside a high-reach excavator, which tore off large sections of exterior metal.

The buildings roof was deflated in mid-January and cables that supported the roof were subsequently imploded.

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MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Demolition of the Metrodome in Minneapolis was stopped Monday afternoon when a beam fell unexpectedly, project officials said.

The (Minneapolis) Star Tribune reported no one was hurt in the 1 p.m. CST incident.

Workers for a subcontractor, Frattalone, were taking down a section of one beam when another beam next to it crashed down out of sequence. The demolition work was halted until it could be determined what went wrong, the newspaper said.

A Mortenson Construction spokesman said it was possible the tear-down could resume yet this week.

Demolition of the 32-year-old stadium where the Minnesota Vikings and Twins played began last month to clear the site for a new $1 billion Vikings stadium. The Twins moved to their own Target Field in 2010.

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