Netcare 911 paramedics responded to a pedestrian accident, on Simon Bekker Road, in Tedstoneville, on Wednesday morning.
Upon their arrival at the scene they found that a six-year-old child had been knocked over by a motor vehicle.
The child was treated on scene and rushed to a nearby hospital, but died on arrival at the hospital.
The cause of the accident and preceding events remain the subject of a police investigation.
