• Ndlovu said there was never any meaningful relationship with the mother apart from the 2 short encounters

  • Peter was not informed by the baby mama about the pregnancies or the subsequent births of children

  • According to the court order, Ndlovu was already more than R94 000 in maintenance arrears

A south African high court has granted Peter Ndlovu’s short time lover R12 000 in maintenance and ordered that it be deducted from Ndlovu’s salary.

Mamelodi Sundowns team manager Peter Ndlovu might have dodged a financial bullet after the Johannesburg High Court reduced the amount of child support one of the mothers of his 13 children was demanding.

Former Zimbabwe warriors forward and Mamelodi Sundowns team manager Peter Ndlovu might have dodged a financial bullet after the Johannesburg High Court reduced the amount of child support one of the mothers of his 13 children was demanding.Ndlovu had been ordered by a lower court to pay almost R30 000 after the mother of two of his children approached the Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court last year.

The mother, who cannot be named, to protect the identity of their children, was demanding R29 845 per month from the former player.

Ndlovu appealed that order in June last year, asking the court to reduce the amount. He told the court that the maintenance the mother of two was demanding would be detrimental to his 11 other children he pays maintenance for.

GARNISHEE ORDER

The high court subsequently granted the mother R12 000 in maintenance and ordered that it be deducted from Ndlovu’s salary.

“I have 13 children, including the two with the first respondent,” the former Zimbabwean international told the court.

“I am obliged to contribute and see to the maintenance of all my 13 children.

He said:

I earn a monthly salary which is utilised for my own living expenses, needs, necessities and liabilities, as well as to contribute to my dependents’ expenses and other obligations.

“I can simply not afford a deduction of R29 845 per month from my salary,” read the 49-year-old’s court application.

He said the mother had approached the Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court without alerting him to the legal proceedings.

“I approached the maintenance court at the earliest opportunity, given my work commitments – on June 10 2021 – in order to establish how the order was obtained without my having any knowledge of the proceedings and to determine how the arrears were calculated,” he wrote in his court papers.

According to the court order, Ndlovu was already more than R94 000 in maintenance arrears.

The former striker, who played for UK clubs Sheffield United, Coventry City and Birmingham City before joining Sundowns where he retired, said there was never any meaningful relationship with the mother, apart from the two encounters that resulted in the birth of the children.

NO COMMUNICATION

“As a result of these encounters, two minor children were born between the respondent and me.

“I was not informed by the respondent about the pregnancies or the subsequent births of our children.

“The first I heard of the children was when she instituted maintenance proceedings against me in 2016.

“There is no communication between the respondent and me. We share no relationship and there is no contact between us,” he told the court.

He also said he had no contact with the children, as their mother was denying him access to them.

Ndlovu was approached by City Press for comment, and he asked for the questions to be sent to him via text. He had not responded by the time of going to print.

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