Thirteen others have been hospitalised, of which five are in a critical condition, after they consumed the brew that was tainted with methanol.
The tragedy unfolded on Sunday, a day before the ban on liquor sales was lifted under lockdown Level 3.The men, all from Masiphumele in Fish Hoek, had attended a party where the brew was served on Sunday.“I thought he was his usual drunk self but when I tried to give him food, he had no appetite,” she says.The mother of two says she was angry and shouted at her husband to get ready for work, but he was restless and didn’t recognise her.
Tapera was rushed to False Bay Hospital where he died while waiting to be transferred to Groote Schuur hospital.“I am heavily pregnant with two kids and I do not work. I am renting here, where will I get the money now that he is gone?” asks the devastated widow. The supplier of the booze is nowhere to be found and his girlfriend Triza Jere, 26, says the bottles used for the home-made brew were marked “flammable acid”.“They could not drink it without mixing it with Coke or juice.Triza Jere, 26
Natalie Watlington, the Health Communications Officer for Southern Western Sub-structures, confirmed: “Twenty cases of methanol poisoning were admitted to False Bay Hospital thus far of which seven patients have passed away. Five of the patients have been transferred either to Victoria or Groote Schuur Hospital.People sometimes use methanol as a substitute for alcohol but this is dangerous and harmful to humans.
Unathi_Kwaza Wow, must have been pure poison!
Well thank you BhekiCele and dlaminizuma
MbuyiseniNdlozi Symptom of prohibition or of alcohol?
SouthAfricansP1 If you do not know the difference between ethanol and methanol, you should not be near alcohol. Making your own is not the problem, knowing what you are doing is!
MbuyiseniNdlozi People are irresponsible qha!
But real tested alcohol is sold now
MbuyiseniNdlozi Names are mentioned in the above article but no mention of names in the brakpan case. I wonder why?🤔
Probably going to be recorded as covid deaths. Anyways condolences to the family.
MbuyiseniNdlozi This is Ikasi lam and people are still drinking this thing even though the sale of alcohol has been opened
MbuyiseniNdlozi Bouncer this Cape Town house party.... Mare how are you Wuhan heh? 🤔🤔
MbuyiseniNdlozi Yhoo hayi kunzima xana bubulala ngoku
MbuyiseniNdlozi Why is only now that we see these things
Sab alcohol kills more.
Look at the bright side guys.
MbuyiseniNdlozi They could have listened and observed lockdown rules they could have be around - who is fooling who?
The love of alcohol is the root of all evil.
Unathi_Kwaza Then some people want the alcohol sale ban to return, as if people were not drinking during that ban. The main difference is that there's more people the streets now as compared to then
MbuyiseniNdlozi RIP to the deceased. The government can not be responsible for human behavior. After all many people said government is treating them like children with the lockdown regulations.
People voluntarily drank home made alcohol how is that the government's problem 🙂
MbuyiseniNdlozi People must stop drinking these things
I would love to see a graph comparing virus related deaths to lockdown related deaths.
Blame our loving listening government
So now I am aware of 13 deaths due to home brewed Alcohol. Just what I happen to have read. How many more. The alcohol ban was ludicrous.
This is 100% on the government. Prohibition doesn't work. Bootlegged liquor kills.
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