CLEANING her shack after a storm was always an easy task for Xoliswa Ndamoyi (24) from Erasmus, in Tshwane.
But she was not prepared for what she found under her wet bed while she was cleaning on Tuesday.
A smelly, half-burnt foetus was lying there with flies all over it.
Her dog Danger had picked up the tiny body, brought it home and hidden it under the bed.
She said at first she thought she was dreaming.
“I quickly went to get a broom to turn the thing over.
“I saw a small human head and tiny hands.
“I almost collapsed,” she said.
She called her neighbours, who started going around the community trying to find recently pregnant women.
“The entire ordeal was just too much for me to handle.
“I called my husband, who in turn called the police.”
“The community wants to know who is responsible for this.
“On Tuesday night there was a terrible smell throughout the kasi – something was being burned.
“We thought it was old clothes and rubbish.”
The foetus was later removed from Xoliswa’s house by forensic pathologists.
The SPCA was also called.
SPCA inspector Meshack Matlou told the People’s Paper that Danger was taken away from Xoliswa for safe-keeping.
Mabopane police spokeswoman Captain Rheineth Motlana said a case of concealment of birth had been opened.
