Twin brothers' claim stuns woman at maintenance court

A BULAWAYO woman got the shock of her life at the maintenance court when her ex-boyfriend revealed that his twin brother was the father of her child.

Tendai Zimunye told the court that his twin brother Trust Zimunye was the ex-boyfriend to Shylet Dungeni and the father to her son.

Dungeni was claiming $190 child support from Trust but Tendai showed up in court saying he had been served with summons in place of his twin brother.

The woman was surprised by the turn of events as she was not aware that her ex-lover had a twin brother.

She told Magistrate Adelaide Mbeure that Trust is the one who had signed the summons.

"I didn't know that Trust has a twin. I know that this man is Trust and I can tell from the mark on his ear. When we were outside the court room he asked if I still loved him and why I ran away from him to go to South Africa but now he is saying he isn't Trust," she said.

Tendai told the court that he had never met Dungeni in his life.

He produced his national identity card that confirmed he was Tendai Zimunye.

"My twin brother is a soldier and is deployed in Nyanga. This child isn't mine. I only signed the summons on behalf of my brother and I told the police officers that Trust is my brother," he said.

Dungeni said that if Trust had a twin, he must have connived with his brother to give him his national identity card.

"When police officers phoned him he confirmed that he was Trust but after the police officers told him he was being summoned to the maintenance court he then denied that he was Trust and informed them that he was the twin brother," said Dungeni.

Magistrate Mbeure postponed the matter to January 18.

She ordered Tendai to serve his twin brother with the summons.