KwaMashu teen's gran speaks about drug tragedy
The grandmother of the 19-year-old KwaMashu pupil who died two weeks ago after taking Mercedes, a variation of the ecstasy drug, says she tried to stop him from leaving home the day he died.
Zodwa Mngadi says on the Friday that Siyabonga left home she had been scolding him about partying and cigarettes, forbidding him to leave. He left anyway.
She says Siyabonga had been drinking at a house nearby with his friends when they received a call to go there urgently.
"His parents decided to carry him to Poly Clinic as we had been waiting for the ambulance for a while. They got a lift to the clinic and when they arrived there, the doctor asked them why they had brought a dead person to him.
"These children do not listen. I had been warning Siyabonga about partying but I didn't know that he used ecstasy," she said.
The family is preparing to lay Siyabonga to rest on Saturday. Provincial Education officials visited the family this morning.
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