They hardly had any food in their stomachs when the four Mmupele children, aged two, six, seven and nine years old, left home and started an 18-km walk in the sweltering North West heat in search of their mother and food – but they never reached their destination.
When their lifeless bodies were found lying on the ground out in a veld – the first two three days later and the older children more than two weeks after they took their last walk from the settlement of Verdwaal, Itsoseng – there was no doubt that they had died of hunger and dehydration exacerbated by the extreme heat, 32ºC, on that day.
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