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Original Post Date: 2007-05-29 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Caryn Dolley
A Grade 9 pupil was in police custody on Monday night after a 17-year-old classmate was stabbed to death with a pair of scissors at Eerste River High School.
The schoolboy, also aged 17, had allegedly been teased, said police spokesperson Billy Jones.
The Grade 9 pupil was to appear in court on Tuesday, probably on a murder charge, said Jones.
| ‘It is alleged that one learner was teased by the other’ |
It is the second reported incident of school violence in less than a month and the second murder in less than a year.
Mogammat Kannemeyer was stabbed in the neck and chest a number of times and died in hospital.
“(Yesterday), shortly after noon, a learner, Mogammat Kannemeyer, was fatally stabbed by a fellow learner, also aged 17, on the school premises at the Eerste River Secondary School in Beverley Street, Eerste River,”Jones said.
“It is alleged that one learner was teased by the other which led to an argument.
“He then allegedly took scissors out of his bag and stabbed Kannemeyer in the neck. The suspect was arrested by the Kleinvlei police and is in police custody.
“He will be charged with murder and is to appear in the Blue Downs magistrate’s court (on Tuesday).”
Gert Witbooi, spokesperson for Education MEC Cameron Dugmore, said: “Just after the 11am bell went after the first interval a scuffle then broke out between the boys as everyone was walking to their classrooms.
“One of the Bambanani volunteers at the school tried to help (Kannemeyer) and rushed him to a nearby hospital but the boy died at the hospital. He had lost a lot of blood,” he said.
A postmortem was to be completed late on Monday to determine the cause of Kannemeyer’s death.
Witbooi said it was not clear what the boys had been arguing about but the two had been involved in fights before.
“Apparently the two boys previously had a number of differences of agreements. But nothing escalated to this level or was this serious before,” he said.
Witbooi said Dugmore planned to visit Kannemeyer’s family at the Devon Village home on Monday night to express his condolences.
The boy’s devastated family was expected to bury him according to Muslim rites on Tuesday morning.
This is the second incident of serious school violence in less than a month and the second murder in less than a year.
On May 11, a pupil stabbed a teacher in the buttocks while he was writing on a blackboard at Hlengisa Intermediate School in Nyanga.
In October, Hanan August, a Grade 9 pupil at Oscar Mpheta High School in Nyanga, was seriously injured after three outsiders jumped into a classroom and stabbed him.
Last year in September, Jerome Erasmus, 15, was stabbed to death by a group of teenagers at Bishop Lavis Secondary.