Just some of the tragedies
January 1 – Ten-week-old girl found dead on Muizenberg beach, Cape Town.
January 7 – 21-year-old woman from Dinokana, North West, arrested for attempted murder of her newborn boy.
March 8 – Newborn boy found alive in a dustbin in central Vereeniging.
April 17 – Newborn boy found dead at dump in Phalaborwa.
April 17 – Newborn girl found alive in the veld along Columbine Road, Mondeor.
April 26 – Newborn found dead in plastic bag, Bloemfontein.
May 3 – Newborn found dead in dustbin, Durban.
May 16 – Newborn boy found dead at dump in Phalaborwa.
May 22 – Newborn found dead in municipal trash bin in Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal.
May 23 – Newborn found dead at the Newcastle landfill site.
June 14 – Newborn girl found alive and rescued from a pit toilet in Ga-Manamela, Polokwane.
June 21 – Four-week-old boy found alive at a dumping site at Mhlambe in Winterveld, Pretoria.
June 23 – Phindile Phumgula, 24, confessed to killing her newborn by stuffing paper and her fingers down the baby’s throat moments after its birth. Phumgula then kept the body in a plastic bag in a washing basket for more than eight days.
June 26 – Newborn found dead, dumped in a bin in Milnerton.
July 9 – Newborn found dead in a sewerage pipe in Cosmo City.
July 9 – Newborn boy found dead in a veld at the corners of Shari Road and Shaba Crescent in Lenasia.
July 10 – Newborn boy found dead after being dumped in veld in Homestead, Kimberley.
August 6 – Newborn found dead in a plastic bag shoved inside a skip bin in Bellavista, Johannesburg south.
August 13 – Newborn found dead at a dumping site in Kookfontein, Meyerton.
August 25 – Asanda Pityana, 26, charged with murder following the death of her newborn son after she allegedly dumped him at a dump site in Wells Estate, Port Elizabeth.
September 4 – Newborn found dead in dustbin, Durban.
September 6 – Nombulelo Nzamo, 23, arrested for the dumping of a dead baby at a dumping site in Ext 7, Standerton.
September 27 – Newborn found dead inside a concrete dustbin, corners of Barry Hertzog Avenue and Linden Road, Linden, Johannesburg.
September 27 – Bodies of two babies suspected to be less than a year old found dumped in a Stellenbosch dumping site.
September 28 – Newborn boy found dead in a dustbin on Eider Road, Florida, Johannesburg west.
October 8 – Newborn boy found dead, wrapped in a plastic bag and dumped in in a field along Leslie Road in Fourways, Johannesburg.