Saturday, 16 November 2024

Rats spread as South Africa fails to collect trash; government to crack down on people buying and selling pesticides, as children die of poisoning.

South Africa's President Ramaphosa says there is a rat infestation in much of South Africa because trash is piling up on the streets. 

Restricted pesticides are being sold by South African and foreign informal vendors and are being widely bought and stored. 

'Spaza' shops (corner stores) are buying the pesticides and storing them near goods for sale. Over twenty children have died. 

Instead of solving the non-collection of trash by ANC run municipalities, the government will crack down. 

They will shut all the shops that sold deadly food, which was stored near pesticides, force all spaza shops to register (the tax man thanks him), and crack down on the restricted agricultural pesticides being sold. 

He also wants to stop people spreading misinformation that it is solely foreigners doing it, as he says there is not evidence that no South Africans are involved. That part would be a crackdown on free speech. 

Like Britain, South Africa has strict speech laws, and sends people to jail for years for breaching them.

Those allowing rats to proliferate, however, seem safe.

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