Court ruling brings some comfort after boy's school pit latrine death

22 December 2019 - 00:00 By BELINDA PHETO

Money can’t dull the pain caused by the death of five-year-old Michael Komape, but the damages award ordered by the Supreme Court of Appeal is at least an acknowledgement that the system failed him...

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