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Little girl sent home for not wearing mask — a 5km trip on foot through remote forest

07 March 2021 - 00:00

By zimasa matiwane AND Zimasa Matiwane

An 11-year-old girl’s life changed irrevocably on a Monday morning in June last year when a security guard refused to allow her to enter her primary school in rural KwaZulu-Natal because she wasn’t wearing a mask.

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