{"id":207634,"date":"2021-11-08T12:56:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T10:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/probe-into-death-of-e-cape-children-underway\/"},"modified":"2021-11-08T12:56:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T10:56:18","slug":"probe-into-death-of-e-cape-children-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/probe-into-death-of-e-cape-children-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe into death of E Cape children underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202111\/investigation1s_0.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South African Police Service (SAPS) Motherwell detectives are investigating an inquest following the death of three children between the ages of four months and 11.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, it is alleged that the three children accompanied their grandparents on a visit to relatives in New Brighton, Eastern Cape, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey stayed over and on Sunday, the 11-year-old girl went to the shop and bought a packet of noodles,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe then cooked it and the three children ate it before leaving to go back to Motherwell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, when they arrived home in Motherwell, Sinothando Ngwendu (11) complained about nausea and her grandmother gave her some water to drink.<\/p>\n<p>Then the seven-year-old, Olwam Ngwendu, also experienced stomach cramps and queasiness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile being driven with private transport to the Motherwell Clinic, they passed away,\u201d SAPS said.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the two cousins left for medical attention, Athenkosi Ngwendu, who was only four months, also passed away en route to the hospital in another vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, a post mortem will be conducted to establish the exact cause of their deaths. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African Police Service (SAPS) Motherwell detectives are investigating an inquest following the death of three children between the ages of four months and 11. According to the police, it is alleged that the three children accompanied their grandparents on a visit to relatives in New Brighton, Eastern Cape, on Saturday. \u201cThey stayed over and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-207634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/probe-into-death-of-e-cape-children-underway.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}