Daily Sun (March 20) - HE'S as fat and round as a newborn baby....But Bongani Melani is actually nine years old! AT 120kg AND 1,38m, HE NEARLY DWARFS HIS MOTHER, NOMSINDISO! And poor Bongani is getting fatter . . . and fatter. The grade 4 schoolboy from Boitekong near Rustenburg, North West, wears size 52 pants and XXL T-shirts. Sometimes he has to bunk school - his plump feet won't allow him to walk the 5km to Kanana Village's Tlhotlheletsang Primary School. And even at school he needs help to go to the toilet.... Nomsindiso said she has taken Bongani to Job Shimankana Tabane Hospital, the private Ferncrest Hospital and Charlotte Maxeke Hospital. "The doctors checked for diabetes and high blood pressure, but they can't find anything wrong with him." See the Daily Sun mobi site for more stories....

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