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Summary: Delict – medical negligence – surgical swab left in patient – inappropriate to resort to piecemeal processes of reasoning – only one enquiry – whether plaintiff has discharged the onus of proving on a balance of probabilities the negligence averred against the defendant – whether maxim res ipsa loquitur should be jettisoned from our vocabulary.