School to regulate hawkers after child dies



Rebontsheng Primary student Siyabonga Dlamini, 7, died on 11 February at Natalspruit Hospital on Johannesburg’s East Rand. A teacher at the school, who did not wished to be named, alleges that Dlamini died after choking on a small toy whistle that had been inside a sweet purchased from vendors outside.
Siyabonga’s family is still in shock.
“I thought everything that our kids ate at school was checked to make sure that they were eating healthy food,” said Siyabonga’s grandmother, Madineo Dlamini. “I was surprised to hear that my grandson died from a sweet he bought at school.”
Rebontsheng Primary School Treasurer Sipho September says Siyabonga’s death has affected everyone at the school.
“We are all in pain over the loss, which was caused by what the child bought and ate within our school premises,” September told OurHealth.
According to Rebontsheng Primary parent Bongani Nkosi, the school has already begun inspecting vendors’ wares and found that many of the food stuffs being sold to students were past their expiry dates.
Parents have also begun to raise concerns about the quality of food handed out as part of the school’s feeding scheme.
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Thabo Molelekwa joined OurHealth citizen journalists project in 2013 and went on to become an intern reporter in 2015. Before joining Health-e News, Thabo was a member of the Treatment Action Campaign’s Vosloorus branch. He graduated from the Tshwane University of Technology with a diploma in Computer Systems and started his career at Discovery Health as a claims assessor. In 2016 he was named an International HIV Prevention Reporting Fellow with the International Centre for Journalists and was a finalist in the Discovery Health Journalism Awards competition in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Thabo also completed a feature writing course at the University of Cape Town in 2016. In 2017 he became a News reporter , he is currently managing the Citizen Journalism programme.You can follow him on @molelekwa98
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School to regulate hawkers after child dies
by Thabo Molelekwa, Health-e News
March 11, 2015
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