Nobelungu Somfula is one of countless mothers who've spent many hours on the benches of the country's maintenance courts chasing payments from defaulting partners.
However, in her case, the offending father is Presley Chweneyagae, the award-winning Tsotsi star, whose celebrity status makes the 21-year-old mother no longer eligible for social grants.
Their two-year relationship ended last year when Somfula, then a Grade 11 pupil, fell pregnant, not long before Chweneyagae jetted to Los Angeles and international fame for his role in the Oscar-winning film.
"In fact, he was the one who told me that I was pregnant even before I went for a pregnancy test.
"I dismissed it as rubbish," she told the Saturday Star this week.
The up-and-coming actor argued that, as a celebrity, he wasn't ready to become a father and that it was best to terminate the pregnancy.
Somfula retorted that, as a would-be-matric pupil, she wasn't ready to become a mother, but that she refused to abort the foetus.
"He desperately wanted me to have an abortion, but I refused, because how will I live knowing that I killed someone? I couldn't do it," said Somfula, who lives with her mother and grandmother in Mmabatho.
With that, the love affair ended.
Not only has Chweneyagae reneged on financial support, but he has never set eyes on his seven-month-old son, Siyabulela.
Two payments of R500 is all the support the baby and his mother have received.
"What can I do with R500?" Somfula exclaimed.
To add insult to injury, Chweneyagae's mother has demanded a paternity test, to formally establish that he is the father of the child.
Left holding the baby, Somfula has resorted to the courts to try to secure the support owed to her.
However, in a court appearance last month, maintenance officers told her they were unable to track down Chweneyagae. The case was adjourned until June 26.
"I've been fighting with him for too long and I am tired of fighting with him and his family," said Somfula.
"Looking after the child is putting a lot of financial strain on my family."
Nor is it an exercise in bounty hunting, she adds.
"If he has so much money, he would not be driving around with fake licences. He would be going to a driving school and learning to drive the right way.
"If he wants to fight, he must fight with me and not with an innocent child."
Chweneyagae couldn't be reached for comment. Palesa Lechesa, from casting agency Moonyeenn Lee Associates, said the actor was currently on a film shoot.