/ 21 August 2001

UMTATA WOMAN HAS QUADS, NOW THERE’S NINE

A 36-YEAR-old woman has given birth to quadruplets in Umtata, the SABC TV news reported on Tuesday. All the four babies were well and in incubators. The woman has five other children, the oldest of whom is now eighteen. She said she had never taken fertility drugs or contraceptives. Her husband was recently retrenched from a mine in Welkom and is unemployed. – Sapa