Drama as Father discovers after 8 years that he was looking after another man’s child

Two Bulawayo men were shocked after discovering that they were tricked —both for eight years by their ex-lovers into raising other people’s children.

Thanks to deoxyribonucleic acid tests popularly known as DNA tests, Obert Mapiye and Famous Maphosa, a soldier and nurse respectively, the truth has come to their attention.

The unexpected discoveries were made last week at the Bulawayo Maintenance Court where they were later exonerated from paying maintenance eight years after they started making the monthly payments.

Mapiye was allegedly tricked by his ex-lover Brenda Tshuma, a prison officer based at Khami Prison Complex while Maphosa was tricked by Nomathemba Ndlovu who is now based in South Africa.

Drama as Father discovers after 8 years that he was looking after another man’s child

Mapiye and Tshuma have two children both at the centre of “paternity fraud” and the DNA tests which proved negative were done on the first child.

In her maintenance suit, Tshuma claimed Mapiye was able to pay upkeep for the two children aged eight and four years respectively since he was their biological father.

Mapiye and Maphosa who were paying a monthly maintenance of $40 each for the “step-children” applied for paternity tests after raising doubts of having fathered them.

The tests were done by Unistel Medical Laboratories in South Africa and separately cost $350 each.

The results seen by B-Metro