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CAPE TOWN - Triplets born to a Cape Town woman were found to have been fathered by two different men, South Africa's Times reported.
The finding follows a 10-year legal battle by a 54-year-old cab driver who challenged the paternity of the children when his former girlfriend sued him for maintenance.
The Times said the phenomenon of twins or triplets having different fathers can occur when a woman, having ovulated at least twice in the same cycle, sleeps with more than one man within 24 hours and conceives children by them.
The report said the Khayelitsha Magistrate's Court in Cape Town has accepted the results of new paternity tests, and found the man was liable for maintenance for only one child. The children, one of whom died after an illness in 2001, are now 10.
