SHE gently cradles her baby in front of a makeshift heater that’s warming the small home. The new mom, her partner Bongani Yaba and her daughter, Mivuyo, can’t stop staring at little Anoyolo, who’s making cute baby sounds.
The three-month-old baby girl was recently snatched from her family home at Kiki Hostels in Gugulethu, Cape Town, but was returned safe and unharmed after a whirlwind search.
It was an agonising 24 hours for Anoyolo’s mother, Nomfundo Maqashu.
“I’m still shaken,” the 37-year old says. “But we’re glad to have our cute little one back,” she says, kissing the baby’s forehead.
The relieved mother says it all began when she left her eight-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, Mivuyo, and the then two-month-old baby she shares with Bongani in the hands…
