Incompetent maintenance/inept response--eighty more Eastern-Cape babies die.

Carol Cronje, of Imali Cash Loans, said an unprecedented number of grandmothers began arriving at her office seeking loans to pay for baby funerals. Later, in a casual conversation with the local undertaker she discovered that he had conducted over a dozen infant burials between January and March this year. ‘People often borrow money for funerals, but they never really borrow to bury small children – it was the first time we’d seen it in 10 years,’ Cronje told East London’s Daily Dispatch.