News24 reports that less than two weeks before matric exams start, a Grade 12 pupil allegedly stabbed a 35-year-old Free State teacher to death.

According to Free State education department spokesperson Howard Ndaba, the 21-year-old pupil killed physical science teacher, Matefo Mphosela, in her home on Thursday night. Ndaba said it was unclear what the pupil was doing at the teacher's house. The pupil was arrested and the motive for the killing is presently unknown. Mphosela taught at Kopanong Combined School. The school's principal, Nameng Sehloho, described Mphosela as a hardworking and committed teacher, who routinely helped matriculants attain a high pass rate. "We have lost a consummate educator, a fountain of knowledge and a paragon of a noble teaching profession," he lamented. Pupils and teachers at the school are receiving counselling. Free State Education MEC Tate Makgoe said he was devastated by the teacher's death.

• Read the original of the report in the above regard by Tebogo Monama at News24
• Read too, ‘She was a mother to them': Free State MEC on teacher allegedly murdered by matric pupil, at News24
• En ook, Leerder agter tralies ná moord op onderwyseres, by Maroela Media

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