PRESIDENTIAL spokesman Parks Mankahlana will appear before a Mpumalanga child maintenance court on Wednesday in the first of two separate cases. Mankahlana was summonsed to court after two unrelated Mpumalanga women complained he was neglecting his financial responsibilities as father to their children. Mankahlana, who refused to comment on the issue this week, allegedly fathered a son and daughter aged eight and twelve while hiding from security police in the area prior to the country’s first general election. The mothers of the two children both refused to comment on the cases for fear of prejudicing their court applications.