AT LAST, JUSTICE FOR OUR BOY
Oct 01, 2021
4 minutes
BY LESEGO MKHIZE
HE SHOULD be 13 years old now, a boy becoming a teenager, going to school, playing soccer with his friends and with his whole life stretching ahead of him.
Instead Michael Komape will forever be known as the five-year-old who died in a pit latrine, one hand reaching out from a well of unimaginable filth in a heartbreaking – and unanswered – plea for help.
The little boy’s death rocked South Africa and cast fresh light on the country’s appalling rate of service delivery. Something had to be done to prevent another child from dying.
And now his family are hoping that finally
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