No more deaths by poisoning in K-City!

Several times last year people were warned to be careful when eating or drinking in Kanye This was because a trend had developed of several reports of death-after-short-illness emanating from the GaNgwaketse capital. Every weekend one of the many funerals there involved a poisoned person or better put, a person whose death was suspected to have been occasioned by poisoning. We heard such people suddenly fell ill out of the blue, coughed blood, choked, sweat profusely and sometimes even vomited blood, rushed to hospital and in no time were dead. The situation was said to be so common in the village that some locals avoided eating at funerals and weddings with those who chose to eat doing so while armed with medicinal herbs that help deal promptly with any form of poisoning when either taken during a meal or immediately after. Magatwe a re almost every household there had charcoal which the oldies advised was also helpful in dealing with poisoning. Go ne gotwe bagolo carry it with with you to public gatherings that involved eating and take it in powder form with their food.

Kana even children were not spared the scourge of poisoning as several newspapers carried stories of dead children from poisoning. We hear now that there has hardly been a report of death by poisoning in the village for the longest time this year, which is unusual for those who know about this problem. At the Magatwe desk we can only speculate that perhaps, it is because people no longer eat in large numbers at social gatherings.