The Witness reports that deputy and acting principal of Laduma High School, Priscilla Mchunu, was gunned down in front of her Grade 12 pupils during lessons on Saturday and there are suspicions that her death had something to do with positions within the school.
The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Education Department will be offering counselling for the pupils of the school after they witnessed the brutal murder. Deputy chairperson of the Laduma High School’s governing body committee (SGB), Thulani Dlamini, said witnesses told him that three young men targeted the teacher. One waited in the car while two went into the classroom where Mchunu was sitting on a desk in the front of the classroom and started shooting. Dlamini said he suspected that Mchunu’s death had something to do with positions within the school as there were internal issues when Mchunu was elected as the new deputy principal. The SA Democratic Teachers’ Union’s (Sadtu’s) Nomarashiya Caluza said the news of the murder had left them devastated. No arrests have been made.
- Read this report by Nompilo Kunene in full at The Witness
- See too, Pietermaritzburg teacher gunned down in class on Saturday, at The Mercury
- And also, Motshekga denounces killing of teacher in front of pupils, at Cape Times
- As well as, Police probe murder of KZN teacher shot while teaching, EWN
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