By Taariq Halim
The shocked mother of the Delft schoolgirl whose baby was cut from her womb with a breadknife wants her daughter's alleged attacker dead.
An upset and emotional Badrunesa Ganief lashed out at her daughter's alleged attacker, calling her "a coward and a witch".
"If they don't punish her, I'll kill her. She messed up my daughter's life," she said.
Ganief also slammed the police for "mistreating" her teenage daughter.
She said while her daughter was being taken to hospital, police told her to "hou dit vas" (keep it together) when her blood and insides started seeping out in the back of the police van.
They also told her "not to fall asleep".
Police spokesman Dyson Jacobs said the police helped the girl in the best possible way by getting her to hospital "quickly".
He said police were not trained medically and she could have died if she had to wait for an ambulance to arrive. The police had to work quickly. "If she endured a bit of discomfort along the way, it is understandable," said Captain Jacobs.
The 16-year-old girl, who was bleeding profusely, was found in a bushy plot in Beacon Valley, Mitchell's Plain.
The attack occurred on Thursday when the teenager, who was eight months' pregnant, was allegedly lured to a house in Beacon Valley by a woman whom she befriended at a maternity hospital some time ago.
It was there, police said, the teenager was blindfolded, handcuffed and stripped before her stomach was sliced open with a breadknife and scissors. Her baby was ripped out of her womb.
She was also stabbed twice in the chest before the attacker took off with the baby in a rucksack.
A group of schoolchildren came across the two women. When the victim told the children she had been attacked by the suspect, they allegedly stoned the 26-year-old woman until she handed over the baby.
The children contacted the police and the young victim and her baby were rushed to hospital.
Police arrested the suspect and found photographs in her possession suggesting she might be a satanist. Books about caesarean birth, and death were also found on her.
Ganief said on Friday both Tasmidah and the baby, a boy, were "fine now" but that she was still very angry at the attacker.
The father of the baby is Tasmidah's 19-year-old boyfriend, who is a neighbour. Ganief said the boy had a close relationship with her daughter and the family.
Tasmidah and her son are in Groote Schuur hospital where she is in a stable condition.
Ganief said she was grateful for the children who saved her daughter's life. "God sent the children. If it weren't for them, she would have been dead. I am going to give all of them a big hug when I meet them."
Tasmidah was unable to do her matric this year because of her pregnancy.
Ganief said her daughter would finish her schooling when she had recovered from the ordeal. "We stood by her through her pregnancy. We'll stand by her till the end."