ANNELI NAKANYALA (46) is one of hundreds of women who regularly visit the maintenance division of the Katutura Court.
She and four of her six children live in a small kambashu in Freedomland, a suburb on the northern outskirts of Windhoek. Her first encounter with the maintenance court was in August 2000 when she applied for maintenance from the father of her two children, who lives in Oshakati.”The case took a long time”, she says, but eventually the father was ordered to pay N$200 per month for each of their sons, Andreas and Shali, now aged 17 and 19 respectively.They were then still schoolboys, but last year Andreas failed Grade 10 and Shali failed Grade 12.Nakanyala recalls that they lived with their father in the North for about six years, but says they were being neglected so she arranged for them to c
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