I WANT DNA TEST
Old man demands proof of fatherhood and P100k he paid on child support
An 81-year-old man, Isaac Dikgale, has dragged his 36-year-old exgirlfriend, Boago Naheng of Moshupa village, to court demanding genetic test (DNA) of the woman’s threeyear-old child.
Dikgale, a Chief at Leshibitse village, is not only questioning the child’s parentage but also demanding more than P100,000 that he alleges to have sent
Naheng as child maintenance for a baby he is convinced is not his.
On his affidavit, Dikgale said that sometime in 2017, he got into a relationship with Naheng and had sex with her using a condom.
The old man further stated that in 2019, Naheng informed him that she was pregnant. “She told me about the pregnancy through the phone but I did not see her throughout the whole nine months. In 2020, she informed me that she gave birth to a baby girl,” he said.
Dikgale further stated that he started financing the upkeep of the said child before birth by sending P2 000 per month to the mother.
“She started to insult me after I brought the issue of DNA test, so this year I stopped sending the money for support,” Dikgale explained.
In an interview with this publication after his court appearance at Kanye Magistrates’ Court, the old man said that he felt used because even during their dating days, Naheng was always busy and never gave him much attention.
“I paid for her to go to driving school when she was a bus conductor but she never spent time with me. She would go to Kasane and the next thing she’d be in South Africa for leisure, yet she claimed to be too busy for me,” he added.
The case was set for hearing on May 17th. When approached for comment, Naheng refused to go into detail saying she will say everything on the 17th. “Leave my name out of that story of yours,” she said before hanging up.