Mothers are urged in these pamphlets to get rid of their unborn babies, cheaply, quickly and painlessly by means of "legalized abortions". Contact cell phone numbers and a price list are supplied, but no physical address is given. The provincial health authorities, when approached, declined to comment on the ethics or the legality of these advertisements and also failed to give any advice to members of the public on the best way to react to these "invitations" and how to safeguard themselves against money-grabbing professionals and the life-threatening dangers of officially unaccredited back-alley operators.
These mini posters are being plastered in contravention of several municipal by-laws on traffic signs, substations, walls, poles and now also over paid posters, tied to electricity poles along the town's streets, thus defacing lawful posters and further polluting the environment. When this scourge was brought to the attention of the
The pollution, however, continued unabated.
A resident then caught a man red handed, pasting up these posters. The man with a bundle of hundreds of posters and a tube of wood glue was taken to the police station and handed over to the SAPS in Louis Trichardt. He said he was paid by a man in
Less than a week later, the polluting flood seemed to have increased. It still continues.