Ek het nie woorde nie..... wie se skuld is dit hierdie, as dit nie ons almal sin is nie ?
Kids died in desperate hunt for food2011-11-21 10:32 Cape Town - Four young children died after walking for kilometres in the sweltering North West heat to find food, a report said on Monday.
The four - 2-year-old Onkarabile, 6-year-old Nkune, 7-year-old Mapule and 9-year-old Sebengu - went in search of 27-year-old Kedibone Mpulele, the mother of the younger two and sister of the older two, who is pregnant and had gone off earlier that morning to find something to eat for the children, reported the
Pretoria News.
The bodies of the younger two children were found three days later, and the bodies of the older children were found about two weeks after they set off on their journey from an informal settlement named Verdwaal, about 25km outside Lichtenburg in North West.
Mpulele had decided to walk 18km to a farm in hopes of getting food for the family.
The family hadn’t had a proper meal in weeks, the last being mielie meal.
The municipality, police and farmers assisted in paying for the burial of the four children.
- News24
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