Counterfeit Foods Scandal Continues and Diabetes Still at Large
SummaryCounterfeit foods lead to food poisoning for 120 studentsGovernment needs to enforce regulationDiabetes could rival AidsActionSA is pressing the police to intervene after recent reports of an alleged food poisoning outbreak that has affected the well-being of 120 learners from two neighbouring schools in Komani (formerly Queenstown) the Eastern Cape.1 This comes after the tragic Enyobani Tavern incident from 2022, where twenty-one young lives were lost, and parents are still awaiting a final autopsy report from the SAPS Forensics and the Eastern Cape Health Department.2 The Party’s Eastern Cape Provincial chairperson, Athol Trollip said in a statement “it is disheartening to witness another episode of potential harm to innocent children, and it underscores the impor...