CAPE TOWN - Eighty health inspectors were sent across Gauteng today to search for contaminated food.
The National Institute of Communicable Diseases believes there may be a chemical agent behind some recent poisonings and the agents were looking for the source.
Earlier this month five children died after consuming food allegedly purchased from a spaza shop in Naledi in Soweto. Other hospitalisations have raised concern about food sold at these tuck shops.
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ActionsSA in Gauteng has strongly criticised the government in Gauteng for what it calls negligence in addressing recurring food tragedies.
It’s calling on government to develop a plan to reclaim businesses from undocumented foreign nations and to support South Africans in operating these businesses.
ActionSA’s Lerato Ngobeni had a conversation with eNCA on this topic.