4 days ago
Urgent appeal: Grandmother seeks help to bury granddaughter after tragic food poisoning
Sukoluhle James' family seeks funds to bury her after she died of food poisoning.
Image: Supplied
A heartbroken grandmother is pleading for financial assistance to bury her one-year-old granddaughter, who tragically died from suspected food poisoning after eating a packet of noodles.
Sukoluhle James died in the early hours of Tuesday, May 27, after falling ill during the night.
Her grandmother, Nomzamo Dlambula, described the devastating events leading up to the toddler's death.
'It was around 1am when she passed on Tuesday,' Dlambula said.
'She ate the noodles for supper, and that was the last thing she ate, and then around 11pm, I was woken up by her; she was crying.
'When I asked her mother why she was crying, she said she didn't know, and they came to my room.'
Video Player is loading.
Play Video
Play
Unmute
Current Time
0:00
/
Duration
-:-
Loaded :
0%
Stream Type LIVE
Seek to live, currently behind live
LIVE
Remaining Time
-
0:00
This is a modal window.
Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window.
Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan
Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan
Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Window Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan
Transparency Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque
Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Dropshadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps
Reset
restore all settings to the default values Done
Close Modal Dialog
End of dialog window.
Advertisement
Video Player is loading.
Play Video
Play
Unmute
Current Time
0:00
/
Duration
-:-
Loaded :
0%
Stream Type LIVE
Seek to live, currently behind live
LIVE
Remaining Time
-
0:00
This is a modal window.
Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window.
Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan
Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan
Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Window Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan
Transparency Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque
Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Dropshadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps
Reset
restore all settings to the default values Done
Close Modal Dialog
End of dialog window.
Next
Stay
Close ✕
Dlambula said she immediately sensed something was wrong.
'I could see that she was not alright. We couldn't even take her to the hospital as she had passed away. The post-mortem report said that it was food poisoning that killed her.'
According to Dlambula, her daughter had attended a birthday party earlier in the day and brought the noodles home from a friend's cupboard.
'She got home and then made supper for her daughter. The friend said she bought the noodles from a shop in Wynberg. She said she also fed her children the same noodles, but nothing happened to them.
'I think maybe this was a factory fault, and we can't focus on tracking down the company because we are struggling to put funds together to bury Sukoluhle, and we are not sure where to go.'
