Quintuplet dad denies leaving woman stranded

While the country celebrated the news of the birth of a set of quintuplets last week, a Johannesburg bride-to-be was reeling in shock after learning through the media that the lucky father was actually her fiancé.

Sowetan has learnt from well placed sources that the woman had been planning a white wedding with Joe Buthelezi, who made headlines after his partner gave birth to five infants at the Clinix Botshelong-Empilweni Private Hospital in Vosloorus on September 6.

However, Buthelezi denied the allegations that he had been planning a wedding.

“I had paid lobola during the year indicated [2014], but I am not in a relationship with her anymore. There were no plans for a wedding. I am devoting my life and energy to the mother of my five kids,” Buthelezi said.

The woman’s relative said she had suffered stress after reading the articles that Buthelezi was the father of the quints.

“He probably collapsed because he knows what he has done. They stayed together for six years at his home in Sunward Park. He paid lobola for her in 2014. I used to visit them all the time. The family was preparing for a wedding,” the jilted woman’s relative added.

The relative said Buthelezi had told his fiancée he did not want more children.

“He said he was not ready to have children with her because he already had other children.”

She said Buthelezi met their family three weeks before the birth of his children made headlines and had promised to come back to fetch his fiancée so that she can move back into their home. She said the situation had taken its toll on the woman’s health and she was in need of counselling.

Buthelezi said he dated the woman but they broke up.

“I ended my relationship long before. I chased her away when she took my car and spent a weekend in Rustenburg with a boyfriend,” Buthelezi said. He claimed this was not the first time she had cheated on him.

When contacted the woman denied that she had cheated on Buthelezi but declined to speak further.

I had paid lobola during the year indicated [2014], but I am not linked with her anymore