T-SHIRT CONFIRMS VICTOR’S CHILDREN

MBABANE – A piece of the blood-stained T-shirt which businessman Victor Gamedze was wearing when he was shot dead in Ezulwini has completed the paternity dispute puzzle.

This is so because the DNA tests of Nosipho and Wandile which were conducted using the piece of the blood- stained T-Shirt indicate that they were the biological children of the late businessman and football administrator.

It was not only Nosipho and Wandile who were subjected to DNA tests using the blood-tained T-shirt but all the other children of the late businessman, Ngeti, Tiyandza and Temalungelo.

The results proved that all five of them were biological children of the late businessman.
The paternity tests were conducted in Pretoria, Republic of South Africa. This was after the executor of the estate, lawyer Derrick Ndo Jele, ordered all the children of the deceased to undergo the test before he could release their inheritances. 

The paternity of Wandile and Nosipho was being questioned by Gamedze’s wife, Lungile, who contended that the businessman never told her about them.
Reached for comment through her lawyer Mlungisi Khumalo, Lungile insisted that all she wanted was certainty on the identities of the two children.

She also pointed out that she still stood by what she had stated in her affidavit when the matter was in court.  In her affidavit, Lungile stated that:  “If it comes out that they were indeed the biological children of the late Gamedze they will get what is due to them from the estate.” She went on to state that it was in the best interest of all the beneficiaries that the duo undergo the paternity test.

The latest development means that the duo will now also benefit from the multi-million estate of the late businessman. It also means that the estate will finally be wound-up.
The executor, when reached for comment yesterday, politely declined to comment on the issue.
The genesis of the matter is that, Lungile and her two daughters, Tiyandza and Temalungelo, filed an application where they were seeking and order compelling Nosipho to undergo a paternity test. The court, however, ruled in favour of Nosipho as it found that she was the biological daughter of the late businessman. 

Lungile then noted an appeal which is still pending at the Supreme Court.  In the case of Wandile, DNA test was previously conducted and the results came out to be inconclusive.

Samples

The paternity test of the minor (Wandile) was previously conducted at Ermelo in the Republic of South Africa. During the tests, blood samples of one of Gamedze’s daughters were used but the outcome was that it was inconclusive. Inconclusive paternity test results generated by most laboratories typically mean that the probability of paternity was less than 99 per cent.

Last year, the mother of the minor, Chantel Littler, filed an urgent application seeking an order to change the child’s name and surname.  She wanted the child to be named after the late Gamedze.  The minor was born in Richard’s Bay Hospital on May 3, 2017. He was named Zayne Wandile Littler.

Chantel informed the court that the child was registered under her surname because the law governing registration of birth certificates required that the father of the child could only be included if the certificate was registered in his presence. She submitted that the Ministry of Home Affairs officers advised her that the law provided that particulars of the father of the child could be included if the father deposed to an affidavit.

“I duly informed Gamedze about the need to alter the name of the child for the completion of the registration. He deposed to an affidavit confirming the minor as his own. However, he died before attesting to the affidavit,” she argued.

Chantel averred that she had powers to apply for the change of her child’s name and surname so that the minor could benefit from the estate of his late father. She submitted that if the child’s name and surname remained unchanged, he was likely to be excluded during the distribution of the estate.
The usage of the blood-stained T- shirt to conduct the DNA test was granted after the executor moved an urgent application at the High Court.

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