Abandoned baby recovers in Kuruman Hospital
HIV, post-natal depression and unemployment are just some of the reasons why mums abandon babies. In Kuruman, Northern Cape, one baby narrowly escaped with her life after being left to die.
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A child with a child
When young Nompumelelo Sithole* from a small farming town in Mpumalanga asked local clinic nurses for contraception, they told her to come back when she was 18 years old. Now 13 years old, Nompumelelo has an eight-month-old baby.