“I found a lot of pills stashed in a tin hidden inside the bucket. I immediately recognised them as ipilisi ze ntaki (aluminium phosphide). “I remember wondering why mom would have them. So I took them, hid them under my T-shirt and threw them away. “Unfortunately, I mistakenly dropped one of the pills.”
The deaths of three young children and their mother, after she allegedly forced them to drink beer laced with poison and strangled them before taking her own life, have left her family and residents of a tight-knit rural Port St Johns village reeling in shock.
The deaths of three children and their young mother, who apparently made them drink beer laced with poison and strangled them before taking her own life, have left their family and neighbours in a tight-knit Port St Johns village deep in shock.