“The last time I saw him he had come to greet me, happy as always. I hugged him and gave him R1 after which he went out to play with his friends at their usual spot in the park,” recalled Kholekile ...

‘Khayalethu Magadla’s call was a first of its kind for us and maybe that’s why it took us so many days to retrieve his body,” said Robert Mulaudzi, the spokesperson for the City of Johannesburg ...

One of Khayalethu Magadla's friends said he wanted to save him after he slipped and fell into a manhole. He was one of four young boys who were playing together with Khayalethu on that fateful day.

For three weeks, 35 members of the City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services navigated their way through sewer pipelines in their bid to retrieve the body of six-year-old Khayalethu Magadla.