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Secret affair leaves her with four babies

THIRTY-YEAR-OLD Ambani Azwitamisi will rue the day she allowed a primary school teacher into her bed.

The Limpopo woman now has quadruplets from the secret affair with the teacher, who has left her in the lurch because he is a married man with two wives.

The teacher claims he cannot afford to support her and the babies. Azwitamisi is employed as a security guard at a local clinic and has two other children, aged 7 and 13, and cannot make ends meet on her meagre salary.

Her plight touched her community, which together with their Chief Leonard Randima, decided to raise funds for her six children.

Randima, who donated R5000 for Azwitamisi to buy food and clothes, also established a family trust fund to help with the children's upbringing.

By midday yesterday the fund had already reached R10000.

Azwitamisi depends solely on her salary, which she shares with her pensioner mother, two unemployed sisters and her two children.

But yesterday she was excited when Limpopo MEC for health Mariam Sekgabutla visited her at the Donald Fraser Hospital in Thohoyandou.

Sekgabutla donated clothes and food parcels and promised to take care of the children until they are a year old.

Sekgabutla said her department would ask the South African Social Security Agency to continue taking care of the children beyond the first 12 months.

A still baffled Azwitamisi said: "When I went to the hospital for the first time I did not realise that something was not right with my pregnancy. I was surprised when the doctors told me there were still other babies in my stomach after the first delivery.

"After the delivery I thought I was going to struggle to raise the children alone. Thanks to our chief and the department of health this is an early Christmas for me," she said.

Local government and housing MEC Soviet Lekganyane said his department had decided to provide the woman and her children with a house.

"It might take a mother to give birth to a child, but it definitely takes the whole community to raise the same child," he said.

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