'Nurses didn’t want to help, so I did their job for them'

Street vendor helps woman deliver a baby

13 October 2022 - 07:29

By Zoe Mahopo

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.

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