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‘I just wanted to help’: SA teen sells masks to pay school fees

17 August 2020 - 07:00 By JEFF WICKS
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15-year-old Liam Theunissen has been selling masks to contribute toward his school fees.
15-year-old Liam Theunissen has been selling masks to contribute toward his school fees.
Image: Sandile Ndlovu

While most teenagers would delight on the opportunity to wriggle out of class, one Hillcrest schoolboy is selling masks to pay his own school fees.

And within a week, 15-year-old Liam Theunissen raised the R22,000

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