…says wife has still not let him see her brood of ‘ten babies
- Gosiame Sithole, 37, claims to have given birth to 10 babies in South Africa
- But some doubt remains over the authenticity, with government officials saying they have no record of the birth and no doctor coming forward to confirm it
- Father Tebogo Tsotetsi has now appealed for the public to stop sending him and his wife donations after he accepted £50,000 on Wednesday in Cape Town
- Mr Tsotetsi has also said that he is yet to see the babies for himself
The father of ten babies said to have been born to one mother in South Africa has asked the public to stop donating money to his partner.
Teboho Tsotetsi – whose wife Gosiame Sithole made headlines when it was claimed she gave birth to decuplets – also said that he has still not yet been allowed to see the babies, as mystery continues to surround the potentially record-breaking brood.
‘I appreciate the financial support that we have been getting from members of the public, but I also would like to appeal to the public to stop making money deposits into our accounts until members of the community have seen the babies,’ Tsotetsi said in a message, according to Pretoria News.
But according to South Africa’s Sunday Times newspaper, the Mediclinic Medforum Hospital in Pretori – where Ms Sithole, 37, is claimed to have told her husband she gave birth to the babies after midnight on June 8 – said it had not treated her.
While the clinic said it was aware of the publicity around the birth of the babies, spokesperson Tertia Kruger told the newspaper following the Pretoria News report on Monday: ‘We can confirm that none of our facilities were involved in the obstetric care of this patient or her decuplets.’