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Tumisang Motsikwa, MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko and Tumisang's mother, Ellen Motsikwa.
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It has been eight months since hero schoolboy Tumisang Motsikwa underwent emergency surgery on his heart. Now he is looking forward to spending time with his family on Christmas Day.
Earlier this year, the Bheki Mlangeni District Hospital in Soweto performed its first heart surgery. On the operating table was 20-year-old Motsikwa, a Grade 12 pupil who was rushed to the government facility on Freedom Day, 27 April.
He had been stabbed outside his school, Thomas Mofolo Secondary in Naledi while trying to save a fellow pupil from a mugger.
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