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Instead of blowing out candles on his first birthday cake in January, little Ziphozenkosi Dlomo from Ntuzuma cried uncontrollably and ended up in hospital.
Doctors treated the one-year-old boy for constipation and he was sent home. This happened more than once until his symptoms took a sinister turn. While the initial blood results showed that he was anaemic and confirmed why his skin was pale, the symptoms progressed and by