Gladys Mokgotho, 55, a Limpopo street vendor, cried in despair as other women around her watched in horror while she unwrapped the umbilical cord from the neck of baby boy outside the gates of a closed clinic.  

The crowd would squirm at every turn of her hand around the baby’s neck as she tried to save the infant who had been born outside the gates of the Burgersfort clinic while nurses apparently refused to come out to help, claiming their shift had not begun...