Brain-damaged teen at the centre of family fight over RAF cash

Girl, 16, lives in an Atteridgeville shack with an aunt while her father buys cars and a house with some of the R5.7m paid out for her rehabilitation

20 February 2022 - 00:00

Each day after school, Mpho*, 16, looks forward to a stroll with her father to buy her favourite meal: a spatlo and cool drink. ..

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