Kuwadzana Mum Laces Kid's Food with Poison

Kuwadzana Mum Laces Kid's Food with Poison

A Kuwadzana woman killed two of her four children after she fed them food laced with poison.

She is now battling for her life in hospital. Clara Muronda Makachemu is reported to have prepared rice for her family and mixed it with a poisonous substance, which is yet to be identified.

Clara served the food to her four children — Ryan,14, Atidaishe, 10, Atipashe, 8 and Anenyasha, 4.

She also ate the same rice. Clara was spotted vomiting in a toilet by a child who had come to see a friend.

The child failed to enter the room, which was engulfed in smoke, left the house and told David Makachemu, who is a relative of the family, about the smoke coming out of the house. David had been seated outside the house. David burst into the room and found the children lying unconscious.

Kuwadzana Mum Laces Kid's Food with Poison

Atidaishe and Atipashe died upon arriving at a local clinic and Clara and her two other children are battling for life at Sally Mugabe Hospital.

Meanwhile, Cephas Mashakada’s widow, Eunice Mashakada, has died at Sally Mugabe Hospital. She succumbed to kidney failure.

Gogo Mashakada died at a time when she was reviving her late husband’s music. She is survived by one child and four grandchildren. Mourners are gathered along Mabika Way near Ziko Shopping Centre in Seke.

Gogo Mashakada will be buried at Zororo Memorial Park in Chitungwiza on Wednesday. Mashakada lost his battle against diabetes on August 23, 2011.

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Family spokesperson, Faith Taruvinga described Gogo Mashakada as a unifier, a hard worker and a marriage builder.