[WATCH] ‘He was purple on the stomach’ - Soweto boy in ICU after eating snacks bought at spaza shop

An eight-year-old boy is fighting for his life since last Friday after being hospitalised from eating snacks bought at a tuck shop in Soweto. His family said that the doctors informed them that poison had been detected in his body. The City of Johannesburg said it had since closed the tuck shop in the area after receiving reports about the child's condition.

• Soweto
• Food poisoning
• Foodborne illness

Tshidi Molobela, the mother of a 8-year-old boy that who allegedly consumed rat poisoning from a local spaza shop. Picture: Simphiwe Nkosi/EWN