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Nurse delivers baby in car during lunch break

A Melomed nurse, Sister Njapha, became a hero when she delivered a healthy baby boy in the parking lot of the Mitchells Plain Melomed hospital last week Thursday. According to a statement released by Group Marketing Manager Shameema Adams, Sr Njapha was alerted by a frantic man during her afternoon lunch break that a woman was going into labour in a nearby vehicle despite her due date being later this […]

today17 April 2023

Local

Calls raised for intervention amid concern over number of babies abandoned in SA

LOCAL Every year, over 10 000 babies are abandoned in South Africa, with the vast majority of them found dead. This is according to Baby Savers South Africa, a national coalition of organisations working to put an end to unsafe infant abandonment. Baby Savers South Africa says teenage pregnancies and poverty are some of the main reasons why thousands of babies are abandoned yearly. The Director at Door of Hope […]

today9 November 2022

Local

Woman arrested for allegedly kidnapping baby in Knysna

Police in the Southern Cape have arrested a 20-year-old woman for allegedly kidnapping a baby in Knysna. It is alleged that the woman, who is a friend of the mother of the child, visited her at her Concordia home on Saturday afternoon and took the three-month-old baby under false pretences and disappeared. Police spokesperson, Chris Spies, says they then launched an intensive search which led to the arrest of the […]

today5 April 2021

Local

Abandoned baby found on Cape Town station deck

Police in Cape Town are searching for a woman who had abandoned a baby behind a container on the Cape Town station deck on Wednesday, September 23. A homeless man watched the incident unfold and reported it to police. Police Service spokesperson Captain FC Van Wyk said: “According to reports an abandoned baby boy found by an informal trader on Cape Town station deck on the northern side of the […]

today29 September 2020

Local

2-year-old boy and father shot dead in Bonteheuwel

A two-year-old boy shot in Bonteheuwel died of his injuries after his father passed away on Wednesday night. Zhario and his father Mogamat Johnson were shot in a drive-by shooting on the corner of Tolbos and Bonteheuwel avenue, suspected to be gang-related. Western Cape police spokesperson Captain FC van Wyk said the shots were fired at about 19:15. The suspects fled the scene and no arrests were made. "Crime scene […]

today4 June 2020

News

Feel good Friday: Officer comes to the rescue of expecting mother

A Senior Traffic Officer came to the rescue of an expecting mother this morning. Officer Amanda Fojo was issuing a ticket to a taxi driver on the N2 incoming at Jakes Gerwel Drive around 07h00 this morning, when a motorist stopped alongside the road and requested an escort to Mowbray Maternity Hospital for a female passenger who was in labour. The officer quickly realized that the mother would not make […]

today10 November 2017

News

MPlain mother arrested for murdering newborn baby

A 32 year-old woman has been charged for murder, after she allegedly choked her newborn son to death and hid him under a mattress. The woman was arrested over the weekend and will appear in the Mitchell's Plain Magistrates Court tomorrow. The Western Cape Department of Social Development has confirmed that social workers from the Mitchells Plain local office have intervened to protect the other four children the woman has. […]

today18 September 2017

Local

Disaster risk management officials deliver baby boy

Two City of Cape Town disaster risk management officials helped deliver a baby boy in a public bathroom near Bakoven on Sunday, the City said. The two officials - Sam Freeman and Dominique Daniels were on duty assisting with the Identikidz programme, said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, Alderman JP Smith on Tuesday. They were approached by law enforcement officers who told them what was transpiring […]

today21 December 2016

Local

Body of newborn boy found in mall bathroom

The body of a newborn baby boy was discovered in the bathroom of a mall in Somerset West on Friday morning, Western Cape police confirmed. An inquest was opened after the gruesome discovery at 08:00, said Lieutenant Colonel Andrè Traut. It is understood that a cleaner at Somerset Mall found the body inside a toilet. [Source: News24]

today17 December 2016

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