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Families, friends and community members are expected to assemble at Naledi Hall, in Soweto on Sunday, to pay their last respects to the late five children.

They died after allegedly consuming suspected poisoned snacks.

The five children who were between the ages of 6 to 10 years will be given a mass funeral. This incident has led to the closure of a number of spaza shops in the area by the disgruntled residents.One of the parents Otlotlile Msimango described her child as a happy child. “When I got there, there was Zinhle, another child who already the poison. So, they were trying to save Zinhle’s life and then my son also was there. They put a drip on him, they tried their best. Unfortunately, our children couldn’t fight the poison,” says Msimango.“When they confirmed the poison they said we found a rat poison in your children system. My son was lying there lifelessly, together with that child. I couldn’t believe what I was looking at, to look at my son with no voice.

Meanwhile, City of Johannesburg MMC for Public Safety Mgcini Tshwaku is calling for criminal charges to be laid against people involved with the spaza shop in Naledi, after a search that revealed non-compliance to health and safety standards.“We’ve taken samples from the Spaza shop. They’ve actually been taken for analysis.

Tshwaku has warned that without proper compliance by spaza shop there existed the risk of communities taking matters into their own hands.Mpumalanga Police Commissioner’s suspension lifted Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.

 

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