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The Free State High Court has blocked a father from receiving R426,000 from his pension fund while a dispute over maintenance for his two minor children remains unresolved.
The judgment, delivered by judge Johannes Daffue, follows years of failed maintenance payments and repeated court orders that were not honoured.
The father, identified only as Mr K, worked as a prosecutor for the National Prosecuting Authority until his employment ended in 2022.
His former wife, Mrs K, approached the court after he persistently failed to comply with maintenance obligations for their children, born in 2008 and 2012. She asked the court to interdict the Government Employees’ Pension Fund (GEPF) from…