Ramaphosa on food poisoning deaths

As parents of children who died from food poisoning reel in pain, President Cyril Ramaphosa has offered words of comfort while imploring the public and his government to ensure no more young lives are lost to food-borne illnesses. Grieving families of children who died from food poisoning in recent weeks detailed feeling helpless as they watched them die. Many of the children died before they could get to hospitals. In his address to the nation on Friday evening, Ramaphosa said 22 children had died from food poisoning. Since the beginning of September 2024, there have been 890 reported…