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HER GRUESOME DEATH COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED

All she wanted to do was to become a police officer when she grew up. But 11-year-old Imange Rawana’s dream was cut short when she drowned in a makeshift toilet at her home in Ngqolowa village, situated in Middledrift in the Eastern Cape, on Wednesday, the day after Youth Day.

Rawana was epileptic.

Her family believe that her gruesome death could have been avoided. They allege that the government had planned, as far back as 2012, to acquire building materials for the construction of toilets and

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