A schoolgirl from Vosloorus on the East Rand is afraid of going back to school after witnessing her classmate's murder
The 17-year-old pupil of the Phineas Xulu Secondary School has been left traumatised and is now taking sleeping pills after alleged bully Nkululeko Ndlovu was shot dead in class last week Monday.
The Grade 11 girl says she is terrified of going back to school because Nkululeko's friends have allegedly threatened to take revenge.
"They said they were going to kill us. I did not even go to the memorial service or to court (for the accused's appearance) last week. They said they would wait for us there and kill us too."
Gauteng education spokesman Charles Phahlane said he was unaware of the threats.
"If learners are threatened, they must come forward and we will act on the allegations. We can also offer further counselling for the learner who is traumatised."
He said they had appointed an independent investigator to look into issues of bullying at the school.
The pupil said she knew and talked to both boys, but was not really friends with either of them.
The girl's mother said the once bubbly girl had changed since witnessing the incident last Monday.
"She now does not want to go outside," the mother said. "Sometimes when she is alone she just screams. She has trouble sleeping. I took her to a doctor, who prescribed sleeping pills. Without them she cannot sleep."
The girl said she was standing at the door when the shooting took place.
"I heard two shots and saw Nkululeko lying on the floor with a lot of blood around him," she said.
"It was hard to go back to school to write exams last Thursday. I could not go near the classroom where the whole thing happened."
Meanwhile, an 18-year-old pupil will appear in the Boksburg Magistrate's Court again this week to face charges of murder and theft of a firearm.
This article was first published in the printed newspaper on 28 November 2012
Killing haunts school pupil
A schoolgirl from Vosloorus on the East Rand is afraid of going back to school after witnessing her classmate's murder
The 17-year-old pupil of the Phineas Xulu Secondary School has been left traumatised and is now taking sleeping pills after alleged bully Nkululeko Ndlovu was shot dead in class last week Monday.
The Grade 11 girl says she is terrified of going back to school because Nkululeko's friends have allegedly threatened to take revenge.
"They said they were going to kill us. I did not even go to the memorial service or to court (for the accused's appearance) last week. They said they would wait for us there and kill us too."
Gauteng education spokesman Charles Phahlane said he was unaware of the threats.
"If learners are threatened, they must come forward and we will act on the allegations. We can also offer further counselling for the learner who is traumatised."
He said they had appointed an independent investigator to look into issues of bullying at the school.
The pupil said she knew and talked to both boys, but was not really friends with either of them.
The girl's mother said the once bubbly girl had changed since witnessing the incident last Monday.
"She now does not want to go outside," the mother said. "Sometimes when she is alone she just screams. She has trouble sleeping. I took her to a doctor, who prescribed sleeping pills. Without them she cannot sleep."
The girl said she was standing at the door when the shooting took place.
"I heard two shots and saw Nkululeko lying on the floor with a lot of blood around him," she said.
"It was hard to go back to school to write exams last Thursday. I could not go near the classroom where the whole thing happened."
Meanwhile, an 18-year-old pupil will appear in the Boksburg Magistrate's Court again this week to face charges of murder and theft of a firearm.
This article was first published in the printed newspaper on 28 November 2012
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