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A 27-year-old woman will face a murder charge after the body of her 11-month-old child was found in the bushes. Stock image.Image: 123RF/ ALLAN SWART

Eastern Cape woman arrested after her baby’s body found in bushes

A 27-year-old woman was assaulted by members of the community and hospitalised after the body of her 11-month-old baby girl was found by a man in the bushes in Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape on Friday. The man found the baby in a…

After more than 100 days in neonatal intensive care, baby Ephraim Maleho is at home with brother Llyle, mother Beneline and father Melvory van Wyk.Image: Supplied

How Cape Town doctors used an amniotic sac to save a baby’s life

A Cape Town doctor’s decision to save a mother’s amniotic sac during a complex C-section birth has saved the life of baby Ephraim Maleho, who was born with vital organs outside his abdomen. Ephraim’s intestines and half his liver were…

BIG SQUEEZE: Sister Thelma Sishuba attends to Greshem Lewies, 26, in a corridor that has to be used as an observation area at the Malabar clinic because of chronic space shortages at the facility. The overcrowding was brought to light on Thursday during an oversight visit led by DA provincial leader Nqaba BhangaImage: EUGENE COETZEE

Nurses deliver twins in room where they have lunch

Nurses at the Malabar clinic had to deliver premature twins on a consultation bed in the same room they eat their lunch because of an acute shortage of space at the facility. The situation is so bad that a passageway is being used as a…

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INFANT FOUND BY QUEENSTOWN POLICE

MEDIA STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE OFFICE OF THE PROVINCIAL COMMISSIONER EASTERN CAPE According to Captain Namhla Mdleleni, Queenstown Police are urging community members to assist them in locating the parents/mother/guardian of an infant who…

The newborn baby was discovered abandoned among bushes at Westborne township in Queenstown. Image: Supplied by SAPS

Newborn baby found dumped in bushes

Police are searching for the mother of a one-day-old baby boy who was found dumped among bushes at Westborne township in Komani on Thursday. The baby was discovered by a passerby who alerted the police. “Police arrived at the scene and…

Woman arrested over newborn baby dumped in Durban stormwater drain

A woman has been arrested following the dramatic rescue of a baby found in a stormwater drain in Durban last week. Police spokesman Colonel Thembeka Mbele said the woman was arrested on Monday. “A 27-year-old suspect has been arrested ……