The Acting Chief Magistrate in Kempton Park, Advocate D Thulare, has called on all men to take responsibility and maintain their children.
Speaking after the march against the abuse of Women and Children in Tembisa on Saturday last week, Adv Thulare said, “If a man is not paying for a bond, or an instalment payment with a building material supplier, and if you are not an only child of your parent, your children have no place to call home which will remain their inheritance.”
He accused the so-called last born boy child of using culture as an excuse for not building their own houses, as culture stipulates that the last born boy child takes over the house immediately after their parents die.
“Culture cannot be a valid excuse to deny our children a home, built or purchased by the sweat of their father,” he said.
Adv Thulare also called for men to pay maintenance for their children. He said maintenance refers to the provision of shelter, food, household expenditure, clothing, personal care, transport, educational expenditure, medical expenditure, insurances, allowances, holidays, replacement and repairs of household items.
“Let men be forces that rearrange and change the course of families in Gauteng,” he said.
