JOHANNESBURG - Children are dying and their deaths are arguably entirely preventable if spaza shops were properly regulated.
WATCH: Discussion | Mandatory re-registration of spaza shops in Gauteng
People in townships are desperate and seem to be turning to highly poisonous substances to deal with rats.
An organophosphate called terbufos has been sold in spaza shops and has been used as rat poison.
In Gauteng the results of seven out of 19 postmortems suggested the children who died after eating snacks allegedly sold at spaza shops ingested organophosphate.
A toxicologist at Crop Life, Dr Gerhard Verdoorn discussed calls to ban toxic pesticides with eNCA.