Panyaza Lesufi saddened by the loss of life of two Gauteng learners on the identical day
Pretoria – MEC for Schooling Panyaza Lesufi stated he was saddened by the deaths final week of a learner from Hammanskraal and one other from Soweto.
The boy, from the Dominican Faculty for the Deaf, and the woman from Sekano Ntoane Excessive Faculty, died in separate incidents Wednesday final week.
Lesufi stated the boy, 17, hanged himself after a romantic tiff with a 17-year-old learner from the identical college.
He stated the boy left different learners within the eating corridor and went to the junior hostel, the place he dedicated suicide.
Her physique was found by different learners, who referred to as for assist.
Paramedics arrived on the hostel inside 10 minutes and pronounced him useless.
The psychosocial unit of the division will present the required assist and debriefing in school to all those that have been affected.
Lesufi stated: “It is rather unlucky {that a} learner has determined to kill himself. This can be a very delicate situation on which we’d first prefer to ship our honest condolences to the learner’s household. We additionally want to categorical our sympathy to the varsity inhabitants for this loss.
Within the Soweto incident, the grade 12 pupil, 18, was in school at round 7.45 a.m.
She abruptly ran out of the classroom and rushed to the faucet to drink water, saying she was having bother respiratory.
Lesufi spokesperson Steve Mabona stated the varsity principal contacted the learner’s mother and father and an ambulance.
The director finally transported the learner to a clinic in Chiawelo.
Mabona stated clinic workers helped the learner, however realized she wanted additional medical remedy.
She was transferred to Chris Hani Baragwanath Educating Hospital for additional medical remedy. “Sadly, the learner died that afternoon,” Mabona stated.
The division had despatched a workforce to the varsity to advise learners affected by the tragedy.
Information from Pretoria
