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“I regret my decision” – Mom’s 8-Year Old Hospitalised After Circumcision By Suspended Doctor

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A Limpopo mother from Maleboho says she regrets taking her eight-year-old son for circumcision at a make-shift surgery that left him with septic wounds and hospitalised for a week. Doris Mosena, from Slaaphoek village in the Maleboho area, says she…

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’Confusion and pain too much to bear’ – Limpopo mother’s mental strain caring for daughter with cerebral palsy

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A young Limpopo mother says caring full-time for her nine-year old daughter with cerebral palsy has left her depressed, isolated and unable to build a future of her own.  Mapula Setati (25) from Extension 44 outside Polokwane was only 16…

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Limpopo teen says religious objection at clinic drove her to unsafe abortion

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Limpopo: An 18-year-old from rural Limpopo says she was denied a legal abortion at a public clinic last month, after a nurse refused to help her on religious grounds, leaving her to seek an illegal abortion from a traditional healer. …

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