"When the daily voice arrived at Noxolo's home, the toddler was playing outside and her mother was sleeping inside the shack and had no idea her baby was outside playing unattended"... 1st of all, she was bladdy sleeping, of course she didnt know that her child was playing outside unattended!!!! 2nd she needs to stop partying and staying up late with strange men so that she has enough energy to watch her child!!! 3rd she is pathetic, wat if someone kidnapped that child while she was playing UNATTENDED, then she would be so quick to scream out wolf! ppl need to realise that when a child goes missing its always under these circumstances, so if more parents actually started watching their children we would have far less child rapes and murders. Its like leaving your child at home with a molester and telling him not to rape her....!!! ya right!!!

And this type of person just carry's on breeding. What is to become of her children?

I disagree with a couple of the commentators who think this should not have been headline news because it's an everyday occurrence. I believe it should make news, precisely BECAUSE it is an everyday occurrence and we need to become aware of it so that it can stop. What if something horrible happened to that poor little girl? What if the guy decided he was in luck and raped her or sold her to his buddies for sex or even killed her. The mother should be jailed for negligence (if only for a short while to teach her that actions like these lead to harsh consequences), not going to a youth developmet centre, if shes having sex and gave birth then she's past being a youth! Is she mentally retarded or what?!

@Ian Rhodes, you have taken words out of my mouth comrade. The authorities should investigate who the shebeen owner is, and lockup both the owner and the mother, and take away the poor girl from that undeserving piece of trash called her mother. Sies, she doesn't even desrve to be called a mom. I bet her main goal is just to keep the baby alive in order to get grand money. This makes me so sick.

this woman does not deserve to be a mother to her baby! the sad thing is, this little girl is probably going to grow up to be a drunken slut just like her mother, because children only know what they are taught! I reckon the welfare should step in here....!

and we wonder why our children have so many issues when they grow up because they have such "good" role models!!

I think parents who are negligent like this one must be sterilised as part of sentencing. She is gonna have more babies and she can't even take care of one

I have two very willing good woman who will gladly take this baby to nuture her

this is the story of africa,but the anc dont care because as long as the baby factories are churning out little african kids the anc will have votes for eternity.

she is lucky she doesn't live where I live. Here she will be in jail and her child in fostercare. They don't play like that

was IT that good ?

why doesn't social services do anything about this?? what if the little girl had been raped by the guy.that mother doesn't deserve to have child at all. someone please put the baby in safe home

Hayi unamanyala u Noxolo rha! that kid should be taken awy from her because one day she is going to sell her for booze shameless Noxolo* angry face*...

Lock her up but first sterilise the b***h! Then she at least won't qualify for a child grant! It belongs on the front page so that people will stop feeling sorry for the likes of her and her family. Youth development ? She needs her ass kicked.

I won't say I'm completely shocked, but this is concerning. I know this happens in poor communities, but for goodness sake, don't take your child with to a shebeen. In fact, get a damn job, ask the shebeen owner if you can clean up for a few rands. I'm sure the shebeen isn't licensed so noone cares that there's a minor in the shebeen.

Yeah - that's a real model mom! Some example she is to her poor baby that is carted to shebeens. Disgusting!

This B$!ch is going to kill this inocent child. Social services as a matter of urgency take the little one away from this Devil.

I dont know how any woman or should I say mother can do that. She can thank God that it was a good man, otherwise taht pretty girl could have been RAPED. It makes me sad that there is so many responsible people out that would love to have children, but cant get. If you dont want to be responsible, give the child up for adoption, or give her to me. Do yourself a favour and get help, there is defnitely something major wrong with you!!!

what is sad women like this still get the law on their side,I just found out my daughter an son-in-law is on drugs an I tried to for foster care while they get help but my daughter an son-in-law wants his sister to take care of the baby which I told ok to but the reason for me to give in because my daughter wants them to take care,I been there since she was seven months and after baby was born she stayed with me till baby was six months,I don't under stand why would the social worker say it is the best thing to do is for me not get the baby,I love my grandchild so much I wanted to be the one to take care of her,I work from home an I can still be there for her when she needs me,and now baby goes to my son-in-laws sister she works and baby will be with a maid not that it is bad but I am the one who is home an can see baby give her love all the time,is it I need to rich or own my own house I dont understand why my daughter wants that for her baby to be with someone she dont like.

It was your responsibility to teach her how to be responsible but clearly you failed now you want to send her to someone else to do what you were supposed to have done in the first place. Hello Africa tell me how you doing?