Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi takes a picture at the scene where a grade 8 pupil was killed at Forest High School in Turffontein, south of Johannesburg, yesterday./ Thapelo MorebudiThose were the words of a distraught Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi after seeing the lifeless body of 16-year-old Daniel Bakwela, the latest victim of school-based gang violence.
Bakwela, a grade 8 pupil at Forest High School in crime-infested Turffontein, south of Johannesburg, was stabbed to death outside the school in what appears to have been a revenge gang attack.Three hours before the incident, Bakwela's mother Antonette Mubiala had pleaded with her son not to go to school as he was not scheduled to write exams on the day.
On Friday, violence had broken out at the school between two rival gangs. Bakwela and his group, which are known as the STK gang, were attacked and had returned to school yesterday to avenge the attack. They were armed with sjamboks, stones and sticks. Soon after members of a rival gang, known as the IDV gang, finished writing maths literacy exam, the two groups clashed again.
Eish, Panyaza Lesufi has a difficult job. He might as well establish a funeral wing in his department
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