Facebook helps uncover death of local woman at Baragwanath Hospital

Monday, May 07, 2018

SELEBI PHIKWE: A family has social media to thank after learning of their relative’s death through Facebook.

The deceased, Gaongalelwe Sedimo, a member of Evangelical Church of God (ECG) of Prophet Shepherd Bushiri had been lying at Baragwanath Hospital mortuary in South Africa since March while the family this side was unaware of her death.

The woman is said to have left the country with some friends on March 4, 2018 to South Africa for ‘deliverance’ at a different church, not ECG.

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