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Shrivar Sewjee, 23, was a mechanical engineering student at the Durban University of Technology. He died after his drink was spiked at local club.<\/p>\n
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Questions surround the death of a Durban student who was opposed to drugs and gave talks to pupils warning about the dangers of drugs, but went into a coma after a night out clubbing and was found to have cocaine in his body. <\/p>\n
Shrivar Sewjee, 23, was a mechanical engineering student at the Durban University of Technology. <\/p>\n
His parents, Prakash and Shanthi, from Mariannhill believe his drink was spiked at the Sasha Nightclub in Mathews Meyiwa (Stamford Hill) Road, Greyville, two weeks ago. <\/p>\n
Shrivar slipped into a coma that evening and died in Durban\u2019s Entabeni Hospital when the life support machine was switched off last Thursday. <\/p>\n
Club owner Alex Peltz told The Mercury that the club had not had an incident like this before. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have excellent security and the entire club is monitored by cameras.\u201d <\/p>\n
Shrivar was fervently opposed to drugs, his mother said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI am a teacher and there is a problem with some of the pupils taking sugars [a drug containing heroin and cocaine] at our school. <\/p>\n
\u201cShrivar used to come to the school and talk to the pupils about the dangers of using drugs.\u201d <\/p>\n
Ashleigh Bhanjan, the neurologist who treated Shrivar, said urine tests showed there was cocaine in his body. <\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t draw any conclusions from this. All the test shows is that the drug was ingested,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
When a person swallows cocaine it has the same effect as sniffing the drug. The heart rate increases and this can lead to a heart attack. <\/p>\n
Shrivar fell ill while out with friends Sahil and Shamal Singh. They said he complained he was feeling sick, so they took him to the car, where he waited for them. When they returned a short while later, he complained that he felt worse. <\/p>\n
The brothers took him to their home in Queensburgh and helped him out of the car. By now Shrivar couldn\u2019t walk and they thought he was drunk. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe put him to bed and thought he would sleep it off,\u201d said Shamal. <\/p>\n
Shrivar was later found bleeding from the mouth and nose and was taken to hospital. <\/p>\n
The Singh brothers said they not seen him take drugs. \u201cHe was socialising with a group of friends whom we were unfamiliar with,\u201d said Shamal. <\/p>\n
Sam Pillay, from the Anti-Drug Forum, said drink spiking in Durban was common, especially in clubs. \u201cIt is rare but possible to spike someone\u2019s drink with cocaine and for it to be lethal,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Pillay said women were the main targets, with sleeping pill Rohypnol \u2013 known as a date-rape drug \u2013 being used to make them black out. They were then robbed and sometimes raped. <\/p>\n
Shanthi Sewjee said: \u201cI never want another mother to feel the pain that I have been through. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy child was full of life and had everything to live for. He would never do this to himself. Somebody out there put something in his drink which has killed him.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Sewjees said they had reported their suspicions about what happened to the police. Police could not confirm this yesterday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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