Unecebo Mboteni died at creche after falling in a pit latrine. (Supplied)
Little Champions Day Care Centre in Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape is enhancing security measures and supervision protocols after a 3-year-old boy died in hospital a day after he was rescued from a pit toilet.
Little Unecebo Mboteni died in Frere Hospital’s intensive care unit on 19 April.
Initially the school didn’t comment on the incident, but in a statement posted on its Facebook page on Friday evening, it apologised.
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