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The Ministry of Justice and Labour Relations has ruled out mandatory DNA testing following calls from members of parliament (MPs) to address paternity fraud.<\/em><\/p>\n This has prompted debates on gender, rights, and legal fairness.<\/p>\n Ministry spokesperson Edmund Khoaseb says the ministry currently has no plans to make DNA testing mandatory.<\/p>\n This comes after a call by Swapo parliamentarian Pohamba Shifeta for the introduction of compulsory DNA testing for all children born to unmarried couples.<\/p>\n “There is no…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Ministry of Justice and Labour Relations has ruled out mandatory DNA testing following calls from members of parliament (MPs) to address paternity fraud. This has prompted debates on gender, rights, and legal fairness. Ministry spokesperson Edmund Khoaseb says the ministry currently has no plans to make DNA testing mandatory. This comes after a call […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650938:6bdb3207abf92bc93bb0550371ba7a27:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,25149,6137,9086,13947,6029,6852,12605,6857,4706,724,257,5223,254,13274],"class_list":["post-198103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bias","tag-calls","tag-debate","tag-dna","tag-gender","tag-justice","tag-mandatory","tag-ministry","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-shuts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-testing"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650938:6bdb3207abf92bc93bb0550371ba7a27:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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