Baby Breydon with his family, dad Brunn Mostert, mom Janine Louw and the metro’s MMC for Economic Development, Tourism and Agriculture, Shuling Lindoor. (Candice Bezuidenhout/News24)
Armed with nothing but her bare hands, a shoelace, and hope for a positive outcome, a Nelson Mandela Bay politician, with no medical training, delivered the baby of an Eastern Cape flood victim earlier this week.
Baby Breydon Louw is considered a miracle baby by proud mother Janine Louw and ecstatic father Brunn Mostert after he came into the world on 1 July, exactly one month after a flood destroyed their Kariega home and left a heavily pregnant Louw sleeping on a mattress in a shelter.
For the proud parents of a second baby boy, the birth of their precious bundle went smoothly only because of Shuling Lindoor, the metro’s head of economic development, tourism and agriculture, who lives across the road from the shelter.
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