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LIVID: Kananelo Motsamai wants maintenance for her child. PHOTO: Vathiswa Ruselo

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A media officer in the office of Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe is being accused by his former lover of refusing to pay maintenance for their three-year-old baby girl.

Kananelo Motsamai, a former credit controller who is currently unemployed, is accusing Sam Matome Bopape, with whom he had a five-month fling, of not maintaining their daughter and refusing to appear before the maintenance court.

Motsamai, 30, of Mooikloof, east of Pretoria, said Bopape told her he was Motlanthe's speech writer when they first met.

"We were madly in love, and I was always with him. His parents knew me, and he knew mine," Motsamai said. "We were even discussing getting married."

Motsamai said when he found out she was pregnant, things started to change between them.

"Instead of being excited, he just vanished. I kept on calling until he told me that he will send his elders from Polokwane to discuss the pregnancy with my parents. I am still waiting."

When the baby was eight months old, Motsamai decided to go to the Randburg Magistrate's Court to force him to pay.

"He lied and said he was married and that he can only afford to pay R300 a month. He also demanded a DNA test, which later proved that the child was indeed his. I refused the R300 as it is too little ... and I had just been retrenched."

Two years down the line, Bopape had not paid a cent.

When contacted for comment, Bopape said: "I do not discuss my personal life with anyone, especially the media".

Bopape is expected to appear in the maintenance court on September 25.

- lerato@sowetan.co.za

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Sat May 25 11:07:36 SAST 2013 ::

Sep 21, 2012

Pointman

Both id iots. Why have a kid when you are not married or at least living as a family. Also it is cowardly for this Bopape guy to abandon his own kid. No sense of responsibility but he was serving high up in government. Shocking behaviour.
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Sep 21, 2012

MommaC

You are together for 5 months only and you expected him to be happy about you having a baby? Good grief woman! That is ridiculous. You tried to trap him and he slipped the line, Get over it.
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Sep 21, 2012

Mdala

This is the end result of opening your legs for this high flying political hang-outs.
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Sep 21, 2012

KGS000

Bopape told her he was Motlanthe's speech writer when they first met.
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Some woman mara just like that then you madly in love, o rata dilo thought you would fast track into the Deputy Presidents office.
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Sep 21, 2012

MAWARAWARA

bagotabotse my sister
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Sep 21, 2012

Mosquer

Motsamai though she hit a jackport
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Sep 21, 2012

Tsope'

kananelo donot lie sisi you knew from the start that he is marriage.
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Sep 21, 2012

Papage

Le rata dilo, When are women going to wake up and smell Coffee intead of just opening their legds?
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Sep 21, 2012

Kaylae

Bopape told her he was Motlanthe's speech writer when they first met
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Here is the root of this problem,you heard of his high profile job and stop contraceptives cause you knew he will most definitely marry you not knowing really what kind of man he is.You refused the R300 that he said he can afford and now you are saying he didn't pay a cent.I understand your frustration that you are now unemployed and you strike me as a qualified somebody throw your CV and something will surely come up.All the best
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Sep 21, 2012

Sbokoboko

I pity u sister and guys yes it is possible to fall in love in that short space of time. Unless sistaz had other motives.
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