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Leonard Ncube Senior Reporter
THE mother of two children believed kidnapped in South Africa and trafficked to Zimbabwe is due in the country next week, she told Chronicle.Anna Ngobeni, of Giyani in Limpopo, had an extra-marital affair with Bongani Ncube, 37, who fled with the children in 2011.
Investigations by Zimbabwean police, Interpol and the Social Welfare Department are underway to identify the children’s father.
Ngobeni, who romped secretly with Ncube starting in 2002 through to 2011 when the affair was discovered, insists the boy, 12, and his sister, aged 10, are her husband, Samuel Chauke’s children.
“I’ll be coming there next week, I’m still trying to organise travel documents because I don’t have an identity card and passport,” she said in a brief telephone interview from Limpopo.
The Department of Social Welfare has contacted its counterparts in South Africa over the repatriation of the two children. Interpol, the multi-national police force, has also been brought into the investigation.
Ncube fled with the two siblings after Chauke discovered that his wife had been cheating on him. Ncube, who lives in Bulawayo’s Cowdray Park, left the two children at his rural home in Lupane in the custody of his mother, Joyce Dube.
Ncube had brought the children alongside another boy aged 15 in May 2011, telling relatives they were his children. The lad, born of a different mother, reportedly fled back to the neighbouring country.
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