Enyobeni victims' parents demand access to full toxicology report, threaten legal action
The parents of the 21 youngsters who died in the Enyobeni tavern tragedy are threatening legal action in order to gain access to the toxicology report.
The Eastern Cape Health Department has so far refused the parents access to the full report, saying it's confidential.
Parents were only given limited information, with the government telling them their children suffocated to death.
Provincial health spokesperson Siyanda Manana says they are within their rights to challenge the decision.
"The confidential report was then submitted to the South African Police Service because we were doing work on behalf of the South African Police Service because of the prosecutorial service which resides within that space. What we have done, our mandate was to establish what was the cause."
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Manana says the families must approach the courts.
"We cannot stop them. It is their right as parents. They can request that information through the Public Access to Information Act, then they will get the documents.
"It might not be that one, but it may be all the documents that pertain the circumstances surrounding the death of their children. It might be a document that also comes from the police and ourselves as well."
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