A DOMESTIC worker has been arrested for allegedly poisoning an uMhlanga family she worked for. The family, a mother and her two young children, began feeling nauseous after dinner on Friday last week and didn’t suspect anything suspicious at the time.

It’s alleged the mother then found a powdery substance in her cupboard.

SAPS spokesman Colonel Jay Naicker, confirmed the domestic worker was arrested. “There was a blue powdery substance found which was suspected to be poisonous. We have sent it to the lab for testing, but at this point in time we don’t know what it is,” he said.

Naicker added the domestic worker was charged with common assault and said it would be foolish to open a case of attempted murder until the substance has been tested.

However a source within the Durban North SAPS said the domestic worker had tried to use muti (traditional medicine) on her employers in the hope the potion would make them like her.

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