A man who died after taking part in a KZN recruitment test had bladder and kidney problems, a commission of inquiry heard.
|||Pietermaritzburg - A man who died after taking part in a KwaZulu-Natal recruitment fitness test had bladder and kidney problems, a commission of inquiry in Pietermaritzburg heard on Wednesday.
According to medical records Ntuthuko Sibisi had acute renal impairment and his blood pressure was unrecordable, evidence leader Sithembiso Kunene said.
His grandmother, Thandiwe Sibisi, testified that he never reported any health problems before he took part in the fitness test.
She was speaking at a commission appointed by KwaZulu-Natal premier Zweli Mkhize to probe the deaths of eight people who took part in a 4km run at the Harry Gwala Stadium in Pietermaritzburg in December.
This formed part of a fitness test for Road Traffic Inspectorate job applicants.
More than 34,000 people qualified to apply for the 90 advertised trainee posts. A total of 15,600 applicants attended a fitness test on December 27 and a similar number on December 28.
Sibisi said a doctor at Greys Hospital told her her grandson died at 3am on December 29.
“I said to myself it would have been better if God had taken me,” she said, crying.
When she saw his body at the mortuary on January 3, his forehead and mouth were swollen.
The commission continues.
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