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Dit is vol water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frans Thiko (16) het op Woensdagmiddag 8 Junie met \u2019n bal gespeel toe hy op die sandwal by die gat in die Boitumelong-township gegly en daarin geval het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martha van Eck, sy tante, s\u00ea hy kon nie swem nie. Sy neef, wat saam met hom daar gespeel het, het hulp ontbied en geskree: \u201cMy broer is in die gat!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kol. Ad\u00e9le Myburgh, polisiewoordvoerder, s\u00ea polisieduikers het die seun se lyk op die bodem van die gat gevind. Dit is sowat 3 m diep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2019n Geregtelike doodsondersoek word gedoen. Myburgh s\u00ea \u2019n negejarige meisie het in 2020 in dieselfde gat geval en verdrink. Sebang Motlhabi, burgemeester van die Lekwa-Teemane-munisipaliteit, s\u00ea die plaaslike munisipaliteit het nie die kontrakteur aangestel wat die gat ge\u00adgrawe het nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDit was \u2019n projek van die departement van samewerkende regering, menslike huisvesting en tradisionele sake. 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