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School stabbing 'revenge'
14/11/2006 18:14 - (SA)
Sibusiso Ralarala
Cape Town - The attack on a high-school pupil by three teenagers on Tuesday was an act of revenge, stemming from a township feud, the school's principal has told News24.
Oscar Mpetha High School principal Dumile Mawisa said: "Hlalanathi and one of the attackers, also a Grade 9 pupil at the school, were involved in a fight on Friday.
"In an effort to end this feud, I called the two to my office and told them to bring their school bags so that I could take them to their parents to report the incident.
"Hlalanathi reported to my office, but the other boy fled.
"When I took Halanathi to his home, he told me his parents weren't there. I left him there, and told him to tell his parents to come and see me on Monday."
Apparently this was not the first encounter between the two teenagers.
Youth had lied
They had been involved in a brawl in Nyanga at the weekend, when Hlalanathi allegedly stabbed one of his attackers.
Mawisa said: "His parents did come to the school on Monday and they told me they had been at home on Friday when we came looking for them.
"Their son had lied and taken me to a wrong house," he said.
Both boys were not at school on Monday.
On Tuesday, the schoolboy rival and two friends went to the school.
Three suspects arrested
They allegedly stormed into a classroom and attacked Hlalanathi in front of his classmates during break.
Hlalanathi was stabbed in the forehead and in the back and is in a stable condition at GF Jooste Hospital in Manenberg.
Three suspects have been arrested and police have opened an attempted-murder docket.
- News24
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