Denver Kisting
1 April 2011
THE Deputy Minister of Lands and Resettlement, Theo Diergaardt, and the mother of two of his children have apparently decided that their lawyers would sort out their maintenance battle on Monday.
Diergaardt made a brief appearance in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court in Katutura yesterday.
This came after Magistrate Leah Shaanika was unhappy with Diergaardt’s no-show at court earlier this week. It subsequently emerged that he had not received a summons to appear at court and was in a management meeting at the time of the scheduled hearing.
The Swapo MP has come under fire for allegedly not consistently paying maintenance for his 15-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter.
Moreover, it is alleged that the Deputy Minister refuses to have anything to do with his two children from a previous relationship.
Their mother wants Diergaardt to sign a debit order which would compel him to pay maintenance consistently and to increase the maintenance amount.
When approached for comment yesterday afternoon, Diergaardt denied any knowledge of a meeting on Monday. He refused to give any further comment.
“I don’t want to talk to you about these things. I will give the other guys information, but I won’t give you any.”
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