AN EAST London pupil was stabbed with a screw driver in his neck on Tuesday when four pupils from a rival school attacked him.
The incident took place on the grounds of Ebenezer Majombozi High School in Gompo on Tuesday afternoon as the pupil was on break.
Another pupil, who witnessed the incident, said after stabbing the Grade 10 pupil, the attackers tried to flee in a Ford Sedan.
“Seeing all the commotion the security guard refused to open the gate and the guys were trapped,” said the pupil who asked not to be named.
“The principal rushed to the gate and ordered all four guys out of the car.” A group of Ebenezer pupils then started pelting the attackers’ vehicle with stones.
“Other pupils withdrew their pocket knives and stabbed the car tyres until its body touched the ground. The vehicle was finished,” said the pupil.
He alleged the Grade 10 pupil had been stabbed because he had refused to hand over cigarettes. But the Eastern Cape department of education said the pupil had not been the attackers’ target.
Provincial education spokesman Malibongwe Mtima said the suspects had entered Ebenezer’s grounds with the intention of stabbing two other pupils.
“They were let into the school by security because they were wearing school uniforms and had told the guard that they wanted to by vetkoek in the school,” said Mtima. “However it was only after they were arrested that the school became aware that the four were in the school to stab two other pupils before they got into a fight with the victim.”
Mtima said school principal Llewellyn Tomeli had rescued the young men from an angry group of pupils. “The car that was damaged belonged to a father of one of the pupils and the father had told the school that his son had stolen his car.”
Duncan Village police were called and rushed to the scene. The four pupils, who allegedly come from a high school in King William’s Town, were arrested, charged with trespassing and detained at the police station.
Police spokesman Captain Stephen Marais confirmed the incident. “The four suspects who are aged between 19 and 20 spent a night at the cells and appeared in the East London Magistrate’s Court,” he said, adding that did not immediately have details of the outcome of the appearance.
The stabbed pupil was treated and released. — zwangam@dispatch.co.za
Gompo pupil stabbed
The incident took place on the grounds of Ebenezer Majombozi High School in Gompo on Tuesday afternoon as the pupil was on break.
Another pupil, who witnessed the incident, said after stabbing the Grade 10 pupil, the attackers tried to flee in a Ford Sedan.
“Seeing all the commotion the security guard refused to open the gate and the guys were trapped,” said the pupil who asked not to be named.
“The principal rushed to the gate and ordered all four guys out of the car.” A group of Ebenezer pupils then started pelting the attackers’ vehicle with stones.
“Other pupils withdrew their pocket knives and stabbed the car tyres until its body touched the ground. The vehicle was finished,” said the pupil.
He alleged the Grade 10 pupil had been stabbed because he had refused to hand over cigarettes. But the Eastern Cape department of education said the pupil had not been the attackers’ target.
Provincial education spokesman Malibongwe Mtima said the suspects had entered Ebenezer’s grounds with the intention of stabbing two other pupils.
“They were let into the school by security because they were wearing school uniforms and had told the guard that they wanted to by vetkoek in the school,” said Mtima. “However it was only after they were arrested that the school became aware that the four were in the school to stab two other pupils before they got into a fight with the victim.”
Mtima said school principal Llewellyn Tomeli had rescued the young men from an angry group of pupils. “The car that was damaged belonged to a father of one of the pupils and the father had told the school that his son had stolen his car.”
Duncan Village police were called and rushed to the scene. The four pupils, who allegedly come from a high school in King William’s Town, were arrested, charged with trespassing and detained at the police station.
Police spokesman Captain Stephen Marais confirmed the incident. “The four suspects who are aged between 19 and 20 spent a night at the cells and appeared in the East London Magistrate’s Court,” he said, adding that did not immediately have details of the outcome of the appearance.
The stabbed pupil was treated and released. — zwangam@dispatch.co.za
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