A two-year-old Cape Town boy died on Tuesday afternoon, and his mother had no idea until her neighbours went to the shebeen to fetch her.
Cape Town - An angry Philippi community believe a woman whose toddler died while she was at a shebeen drinking must be arrested.
“I heard the baby cry. He was crying for some time, and when I went to check, I didn’t have access. I went to get a girl who was small enough to go in through the window.”“I called the community leaders and told them about the child, and they came, and the door was kicked down.“I went to get the mother, and she was drinking beer. I told her what happened, and she didn’t look like a concerned person.
“When she got home, people hit her. The people are angry because when we checked his nappy, his skin was badly damaged from nappy rash.The neighbour said people were also angry because they live just a stone’s throw away from the clinic, adding: “That mother deserves to be in jail for leaving her child to die alone in that shack.”she went to the shebeen to pay a debt: “My son had a fever and shortness of breath. I had been waiting for the ambulance.
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