School stabbing in Alex
ALEXANDRA – A Grade 11 pupil was stabbed on 26 August on school premises by a classmate.
An Eastbank High School pupil was stabbed, resulting in a case of assault with the intention to cause grievous bodily harm being opened at the Alexandra Police Station for investigation.
This after the 19-year-old Grade 11 victim was allegedly attacked and stabbed in the back with a pair of scissors by a male classmate following a fist fight on 26 August while in a classroom.
The victim’s distraught sister, Manto Manamela of Ext 8, said her brother, who was treated and given medication at the Alexandra Clinic, spent the weekend in bed in pain. She alleged that the suspect attacked her brother without provocation and kicked him in the chest after claiming that he had said something unexplained to him.
This despite the brother saying he had, instead, been talking to a girl seated next to him in class. After that, the suspect allegedly started the fist fight but was overpowered by the victim.
Other classmates then separated them and the suspect allegedly grabbed a pair of scissors which he used to stab the victim.
Manamela said the principal took the boys to the police station to open a case, but she was disappointed that the brother had to go alone to the clinic for treatment.
She also worried that the attack could have resulted in something worse had the suspect used a knife or gun. She claimed that some schoolchildren were said to smuggle these weapons into the school.
Manamela was also disappointed that, after going to the school on 29 August, she was unable to meet the principal who was said to be in a meeting with department officials.
“I am concerned about my brother and other children’s safety. Also, the attacker had pleaded for mercy at the police station, claiming that he was an orphan,” said Manamela.
However, in the presence of this reporter, she received a phone call, allegedly from someone claiming to be the boy’s mother pleading for forgiveness. She advised the caller to meet her family to plead her case.
Comment from the principal is awaited.
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