A DNA-based paternity test has proved that presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana is the father of a nine-year-old Mpumalanga boy, the child’s attorney Vusi Ngobe said. Mankahlana previously publicly denied fathering the boy with Thalitha Mthethwa during a hearing at the KaBokweni Maintenance Court near White River in July, and refused to pay child support unless a paternity blood test was conducted. Mthethwa, a teacher, claims she and Mankahlana lived together for two years in KaNyamazane near Nelspruit before he moved to Johannesburg in 1990. In July he reached an out-of-court settlement with EC Wallace, the mother of his 11-year-old daughter, who demanded he increase his monthly maintenance payments of R400 to R700. – African Eye News Service