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'He smelled like something rotten' – grandmother of child forced to retrieve cellphone from a pit latrine

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An Eastern Cape child was forced to look for a principal's cellphone in a pit toilet.
An Eastern Cape child was forced to look for a principal's cellphone in a pit toilet.
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Imagine your 11-year-old grandson coming home smelling like a sewer, only to find out that his school principal made him wade through faeces looking for a cellphone.

Well, this was reality for one grandmother in Ugie, Eastern Cape.

On 1 March, the boy came home from school with his cousin and his grandmother immediately picked up a terrible odour coming from him.

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