"We have asked for the services of social workers to provide counselling for the Grade 7 pupils and teachers who witnessed the scene as it happened"
A TEACHER has been hacked to death with a panga in front of pupils.
A teacher, Guilfort Shapo, 53, of Mmasehlong Primary School, northwest of Polokwane, was monitoring a class when his brother allegedly burst into the room and attacked him with the panga at about 9am, in full view of baffled pupils and teachers.
School governing body chairman Nare Joseph Sebata said they have temporarily closed the school until Monday.
"We have asked for the services of social workers to provide counselling for the Grade 7 pupils and teachers who witnessed the scene as it happened," Sebata said.
Spokesman for the police in Limpopo Brigadier Hangwane Mulaudzi said the deceased was monitoring pupils writing their examswhen the suspect entered the school premises and asked for the classroom in which his brother was teaching.
"He went straight to the classroom and knocked at the door. When the deceased opened, he hacked him several times over the head and body as he fell down," Mulaudzi said.
"The man was later apprehended by members of the community in the school yard before he escaped and turned himself in to the police later."
He said the deceased was rushed to the Knobel Hospital where he died while receiving treatment. The suspect was due to have appeared before the Matlala Magistrate's Court yesterday, Mulaudzi said.
The deceased's wife, Kgomotso, said: "His untimely death has left a serious void in our hearts, especially to his four children who still expected him to give them that fatherly advice and comfort."
MEC for the department of education Dickson Masemola sent words of condolences to the bereaved family and said it was regrettable that the teacher had to die like this.
Circuit Manager for the Moloto cluster of schools for the Limpopo education department, Zakaria Mamabolo, has promised that the authorities would prioritise tight security at the school to prevent similar incidents from taking place in the future.
Brother kills brother in classroom
"We have asked for the services of social workers to provide counselling for the Grade 7 pupils and teachers who witnessed the scene as it happened"
A TEACHER has been hacked to death with a panga in front of pupils.
A teacher, Guilfort Shapo, 53, of Mmasehlong Primary School, northwest of Polokwane, was monitoring a class when his brother allegedly burst into the room and attacked him with the panga at about 9am, in full view of baffled pupils and teachers.
School governing body chairman Nare Joseph Sebata said they have temporarily closed the school until Monday.
"We have asked for the services of social workers to provide counselling for the Grade 7 pupils and teachers who witnessed the scene as it happened," Sebata said.
Spokesman for the police in Limpopo Brigadier Hangwane Mulaudzi said the deceased was monitoring pupils writing their examswhen the suspect entered the school premises and asked for the classroom in which his brother was teaching.
"He went straight to the classroom and knocked at the door. When the deceased opened, he hacked him several times over the head and body as he fell down," Mulaudzi said.
"The man was later apprehended by members of the community in the school yard before he escaped and turned himself in to the police later."
He said the deceased was rushed to the Knobel Hospital where he died while receiving treatment. The suspect was due to have appeared before the Matlala Magistrate's Court yesterday, Mulaudzi said.
The deceased's wife, Kgomotso, said: "His untimely death has left a serious void in our hearts, especially to his four children who still expected him to give them that fatherly advice and comfort."
MEC for the department of education Dickson Masemola sent words of condolences to the bereaved family and said it was regrettable that the teacher had to die like this.
Circuit Manager for the Moloto cluster of schools for the Limpopo education department, Zakaria Mamabolo, has promised that the authorities would prioritise tight security at the school to prevent similar incidents from taking place in the future.
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