Zimbabwean Baby Survives Night In A Grave
A mother buried her baby alive in Zimbabwe last week. The baby miraculously survived a whole night buried in the "grave", which was really just a pit. She has been hauled before a traditional court and fined a goat and a cow by Chief Negomo. It reminds me of the infamous incident when my friend Noreen Welch and the late Tsitsi Vera were suspended by Zimbabwe Television after failing to contain themselves while reading the story of a woman who had gone to the toilet on a train and given birth thinking she only needed to relieve herself, unaware that she was pregnant. This is much sadder, obviously and the mother deserve much more than being fined a cow and a sheep Harare, Zimbabwe, 24 January 2010 A new-born baby buried alive by her mother survived for a whole night in the grave before being rescued by an alert man who lives near the graveyard. Phibian Chinehasha (the surname means "that which has anger"in the Shona language of Zimbabwe) says he became suspicious aft...