Tendayi: 'Westerhof can change his name'

Tendayi: 'Westerhof can change his name'

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By Showbiz Reporter

THE very public spat between former Warriors coach Clemens Westerhof and his ex-wife, Tendayi, continues unabated, with the latter insisting she is not going to stop using the football coach's surname as asked.

"I have advised Westerhof by e-mail that if he has a problem with me using the name Tendayi Westerhof, he is free to change his name to something else as the name I use is merely by choice and my legal right," Tendayi said in a letter to a Zimbabwean paper.

Last week, New Zimbabwe.com told how Westerhof's new wife, Lillian, had contacted an entertainment website, with Westerhof’s backing, to fire a broadside at Tendayi.

Lillian, nee Ndlovu, variously described Tendayi as a gold digger and accused her of besmirching Westerhof’s reputation with slanderous comments in media interviews and her book Unlucky In Love.

“She never loved him,” Lillian wrote in the first of FIVE e-mails sent to the website which published excerpts of Tendayi’s book. “All she wanted was money and publicity. She planned the whole marriage as a retirement plan, and then got Clemens deported to South Africa by claiming he was beating her. People know the truth that she is a bad liar.”

The harsh exchanges followed Tendayi’s much publicised claims that she had contracted HIV, the deadly virus that causes Aids. She heaps the blame on Westerhof in her book Unlucky In Love.

Tendayi hit back in a letter to the Financial Gazette newspaper, kicking off her outburst by correcting some little detail: "I have four children with three men...and not four."

She claimed Westerhof, now based in South Africa, had abandoned his child Aaliyah Nyashadzashe and had not paid a "single cent" towards her upkeep.

"As it is, Westerhof has never paid a single cent towards the maintenance of his child as he wants the house that I am living in with the child in Mount Pleasant to be sold so that he can pay the $110 million maintenance plus 20 percent accommodation for the child for 18 years as per the consent papers which I was made to sign without being given enough time to study their contents," she claimed.

"I will continue to tell my story as it is because it is true and I am not forcing anyone to agree with it. This is a story about me meant to help both men and women out there who could find themselves in the same situation."

She also dismissed reports that she was abusing donor funds, or was playing victim to get sympathy.

She said: "It is alleged that I am a gold digger who went into HIV/AIDS activism for money. Donors do not fund PPAAT because of my HIV status. There are so many people living with HIV/AIDS who cannot access donor funding because it's not as simple as most people think. Donors fund projects after scrutinising project proposals and PPAAT is just one organisation playing a complementary role by encouraging public personalities to be more open about their HIV status and to play a leading role in the fight against HIV/AIDS."
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