Mon May 20 14:09:22 SAST 2013

Disfigured Limpopo boy succumbs

Aug 3, 2012 | Frank MaponyaLimpopo Bureau Chief | 43 comments

THE Limpopo boy who suffered from retinoblastoma, a rare form of cancer, has died.

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Mon May 20 14:09:22 SAST 2013 ::
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Aug 3, 2012

Memme

No parents should ever bury their own child, it's supposed to be another way round.
Life is just so unfair, he is just a baby for God's sake but i guess we will never understand God's plans with us.
Robala ka khutso boy !!!!!!!
* crying*
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Aug 3, 2012

MommaC

Why oh why did it take so bloody long to get this poor little angel some medical assistance?
If only Sowetan had shamed these damn tsotsis into doing something earlier.
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Aug 3, 2012

Mapholobakay1

Thixo onamandla uma ukhona why usulethe emhlabeni uma sizobhekana nezinkinga ezinje? Lala ngoxolo mfana omncane omuhle.
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Aug 3, 2012

Stumaeza

Eish why did they wait so long - May his soul rest in peace
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Aug 3, 2012

MakgwebelakaKokoYaManoti!

Ha moya wa moshenyana o phomolo ka kgotso!
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Aug 3, 2012

papamasentlelebonolo

Robala Ka Kagiso little man so sad indeed
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Aug 3, 2012

Papgat

My condolences to the family and to the boy May his soul rest in peace. To his father who denied him the child is waiting for you in heareafter. A like to appeal to the surrounding people to open their heart and assist the family with the cost of the burial.
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Aug 3, 2012

KarlZimbiri

Robala ka kgotso lesole. O e lwanne ntwa ka maatla a gago ohle empa ka ntl elethusho ya medical, U could not win.
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Aug 3, 2012

Ntumbane

Just yesterday everyone on this site was hoping for the better for this little boy and now this. The honourable Health minister Mr Aaron Motseledi should be held responsible for this young boy`s death. Its only the rich who can survive these mediacl conditions that most poor people die of.Surely the government should have come on board on time to save this little boy`s life.Watch this space they won`t even give a hand to this family towards burial costs.I am very saddened by his death. May his soul rest in peace.One way or another we are all bound to die but surely our health ministry could have at least foot the medical bill of this young soul in one of the Netcare hospitals.From my understand this is rare medical condition meaning this was going to be one isolated case that the health ministry could have been remembered with by footing the medical bill for this boy.Unfortunatelt nothing was done.In fact a young life was lost without any effort.
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Aug 3, 2012

MOTSOKWANA

My condolences to the family. May his soul rest in peace.
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Aug 3, 2012

Punkies

May your dear soul resp in peace papa. Condolences to your family.
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Aug 3, 2012

smomondini

ds is very sad on a friday morning!! may his soul rest in peace and may God give the family strength and courage to bury their little one!!!
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Aug 3, 2012

NOCTORIUS

RIP MY BOY,I KNOW YOU ARE REJOICING WITH THE ANGELS WHERE YOU ARE
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Aug 3, 2012

Mzabalazo

ntumbane
They were not hoping they were garanting the boy's recovery, they binding and praying, liars they are today post predicted they will be saying it was God's will, and many dogmatic nonsense.

This is not really fair, the tumor to grow up to this size takes years, who ever was saw this child and gave him a treatment must tell us why in the land of plenty was this child flown to Pretoria,JHB or Capetown where we have specialist, why did not they do something?
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Aug 3, 2012

BRA-MAFUTHA

RIP strong man
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Aug 3, 2012

Ndona

This so sad, may his soul RIP!

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Aug 3, 2012

patrompiet

Oh Lord why????? he is only a child, God's plans are unpredictable ka nnete>>>may his loving soul rest in peace :'(
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Aug 3, 2012

malemaforpresident

Mara batswadi babangwe ke di tlatla how do you keep a sick child at home why was the boy not admitted at the hospital since June
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Aug 3, 2012

Lehido

RIP young fella......

Sometimes we as fathers bring bad luck to our kids when we abondone them.....Thats all Im saying......
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Aug 3, 2012

Mzabalazo

AUG 3, 2012
patrompiet
Oh Lord why????? he is only a child, God's plans are unpredictable ka nnete>>>may his loving soul rest in peace :'(
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Are you telling us that it was God's plan for this child to have such disfugurement and die in pain, was it? What kind of a person can be so cruel, he was very young, what plan was that?
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Aug 3, 2012

zukile111

guys u know in 2008 my best friend also died with these cancer.we tried evrything.it is worse than aids and starts as a little pimple that has no pain no pain.and grows .rest in peace young man
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Aug 3, 2012

Kaylae

im so saddened by this story and i was chickening to read it.as a mother who has an angel child it is hard to bury your own child worse in this case the mother had to see him suffer for some time.Rest in peace Hlayi
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Aug 3, 2012

Naivegirl

This is so sad that a five-year-old angel had to suffer like this. My heart is bleeding today. I feel guilty that we have the means to treat our children should they fall ill. I can't even comprehend watching helpless while your little boy suffers and dies and your hands are tied.


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Aug 3, 2012

BRA-MAFUTHA

Hello Mzabalazo

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Aug 3, 2012

Moahabo

May your blessed soul resnt in peace, Hlayi. *teary*
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Aug 3, 2012

BlackSeed

Sleep well young Lion, your mother is a strong woman, she’ll be fine. Death is the only refuge for mankind since the Earth Farm is turned into concrete jungle. No one can ever say dying is a bad thing because no one knows the aftermath of those that are sleeping.

Marcus “Mosiah” Garvey reason this way about poverty - : “A hellish state to be in. It is no virtue. It is a crime. To be poor, is to be hungry without possible hope of food; to be sick without hope of medicine; to be tired and sleepy without a place to lay one's head; to be naked without the hope of clothing; to be despised and comfortless. To be poor is to be a fit subject for crime and hell. The hungry man steals bread and thereby breaks the eighth commandment; by his state he breaks all the laws of God and man and becomes an outcast. In thought and deed he covets his neighbor's goods; comfortless as he is he seeks his neighbor's wife; to him there is no other course but sin and death. That is the way of poverty. No one wants to be poor.”

Pain is for the living, not the dead.

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Aug 3, 2012

legrado

may his soul rest in peace, to his poor mother, lala kantho madi a tshologe. bear in mind that everything happens for a reason.
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Aug 3, 2012

Mothowahlago

My heart saddened. Just read about the boy story yesterday, now died. Shame, he was so handsome young man. May your soul rest in peace, son.
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Aug 3, 2012

Lesoba-Le-Boya

Sad and may his soul rest in peace
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Aug 3, 2012

AREJENGKAOFELA

Condolences to the boy's family. A moya wa gae o robale ka khutso.
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Aug 3, 2012

Buckselona

R.I.P homeboy.
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Aug 3, 2012

gumbeni

MAY GOD BE WT U ALL DA TIME REST IN PEACE BOY
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Aug 3, 2012

Mzabalazo

AUG 3, 2012
BRA-MAFUTHA
Hello Mzabalazo

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Hello Sweetie
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Aug 3, 2012

Mpharane

Ho motswadi wa ngwana enwa ke re: Ho bohloko ngwaneso. O tla itshola. O lla . O lwana le ntate Modimo. O se ke wa tshaba o lwana le yena. Le qeba lena le bohloko. Ha ho bohloko bo fetang bona. Ho nka dilemo ho lebala empa Tshidiseha ngwaneso. A! Moshanyana a robale ka kgotso. O phomotse. Mahloko a fedile mmeleng wa hae.
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Aug 3, 2012

CanC23

Words can not describe how sorry I feel for the family , he is sleeping in peace and will never feel the pain that he felt. I have first hand experience on what cancer can do to a person and the treatment also. when I read the article izolo I could not comprehend the situation cause at this late stage of the cancer its difficult to have it treated. In any case my the family find comfort in God.
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Aug 3, 2012

GeneralSpecific

May your young soul rest in peace. When will the suffering end? The untimely departure of such a young life is totally unacceptable especially if the condition is curable...mXm. I put the blame entirely on the Minister of Health, whereas he should consider building infrastructure especially clinics and hospitals he is busy pursuing mundane issues of getting anti-smoking legislation promulgated.
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Aug 3, 2012

MagakalaaMmatlopo

Nonsonce, they are still taking the boy to Elim Hospital where there is no medicnes and specialists. This type of disease needs specialists not practitioners. Shame, our goverment and u are planning to build Zumaville..one day one day....bloody morons
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Aug 3, 2012

razor1

Xikwembu xi nyiketile,Xikwembu xi tekile. Etlela hi ku rhula jaha leri tsongo, leri voniseke ku tiya a moyeni ni le nyameni. famba na hosi.
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Aug 3, 2012

NguboNduna

Showerhead is busy turning Nkandla into NYC instead of improving the standard of our health system...waisting Billions of tax payers money...pissed off 4 days!!
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Aug 4, 2012

khawana2

Rest in peace my boy, we have all pray for you may the good LORD be with you wherever you are,
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Aug 4, 2012

knobkirrie

As an angel and sinless, you reserve the right to be in the bossom of the Almighty and touch His face. This world did not deserve you. You are flying with the Arch-angels and please look after all our children in the process. Siyobonana KweliZayo, little brother (say Hi to my brother up there)
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Aug 4, 2012

1andonlybucs

Only God knows why the kid passed away so young, hats off to the young lad, RIP. my condolences
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Aug 6, 2012

Mzabalazo

"in dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide, he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind old men as guides".
- Heinrich Heine, Gedanken unf Einfalle

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