“We don’t know how to control this situation because children eat everywhere. We can buy those snacks and don’t give them pocket money but they can still go outside and play with other children who will share with them.
“But we will now start buying snacks in bundles [from reputable shops] and stop giving them [pocket] money. When they want chips they will take those we have bought and not from the streets. I always preach this message of refraining from buying in spaza shops,” she said.
Lesedi’s father Joshua Maabo said his daughter complained of chest pains and struggled to breathe after eating the chips.
On the day she died, Joshua said, Lesedi had bought two packets of chips and shared them with her mother and brother.
“I found Lesedi, her mother and the little one eating the snacks and she [Lesedi] said, ‘Mama, smell these chips … they smell funny’.
“The mother and the little one shared one packet and she [Lesedi] had her own packet. They also wanted me to taste the snacks but I said no and told them to throw them away.”
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