Bhekisipho Maphosa, a police officer, was ordered to pay a
monthly maintenance of $50 in November 2018 after Gracious Gwetsayi sued him
for maintenance.
Maphosa, however, demanded paternity tests as he suspected
that the child he was paying maintenance for was not his.
The paternity tests that showed the child was not his were
done at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) Applied
Genetics Testing Centre.
The Nust DNA lab has been operational since 2015 and about
70 percent of paternity tests done at the lab have exposed some women as
cheats.
In his application for DNA tests, Maphosa claimed Gwetsayi
notified him that he was the father of the child two months after she had given
birth.
“I am currently maintaining the respondent’s minor child.
At that time, (the order was granted) I did not state that
the child is not mine and neither did I request for paternity tests to be done
as I did not have the money to facilitate the paternity testing process.
“I have now sourced funds to facilitate the paternity test
and to prove that I am not liable to pay maintenance for the minor child as the
child is not mine.
“I deny paternity on the grounds that the respondent
claimed I was the father of the child two months after she had given birth.
“This puzzled me because I had sexual intercourse with the
respondent six months prior to her giving birth but she gave birth to a
full-term baby.
If the child was mine, the child would have been premature.
“My suspicions were increased when it later came to light
that when the respondent was three months pregnant, she pointed out one
Lebonang Ncube as the man who had impregnated her but he fled to South Africa upon
hearing the news.
“I am sure that the child is not mine and I am being made
to look after a child who is not mine,” reads Maphosa’s application.
In response, Gwetsayi said her ex-lover was lying by
stating that by the time he had sexual intercourse with her she was already
pregnant.
“I understand the application, I am opposed to the
application.
The applicant is claiming that he had sexual intercourse
with me while I was pregnant.
That is a lie,” responded Gwetsayi.
Gwetsayi was left with egg on her face when the DNA results
proved that Maphosa was not the biological father of her son.
The results read in part: “The alleged father Mr Bhekisipho
Maphosa is excluded as the biological father of the child.
This conclusion is based on the non-matching alleles
observed at the loci listed above with a paternity index equal to zero.
“The alleged father lacks the genetic markers that must be
contributed to the child by the biological father.
The probability of paternity is zero percent.” Meanwhile,
this claim around paternity fraud is not new in the country.
It has been reported before that more than 70 percent of
Zimbabwean men may be taking care of children who are not theirs as cases of
paternity fraud continue to soar in the country where mothers deliberately
misidentify the biological father of the child. B Metro
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