‘He looked like a limp doll’: Soweto family’s desperate attempts to save young boy ‘who ate biscuits’

The incident, which happened in the Naledi section of the township, has left the community reeling

03 October 2023 - 21:59

A devastated Soweto family has described their desperate and frantic attempts to save the lives of two young cousins when the children fell violently sick after apparently consuming products from a local foreign-owned shop...

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