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Durban – Two pupils were stabbed and admitted to hospital in what was thought to be gang-related violence at a high school in Hopewell in Pietermaritzburg, on Monday. <\/p>\n
It was the third such stabbing at the Umlulama Secondary School this year. <\/p>\n
Pupils said a boy and girl had been stabbed, just days apart in February. <\/p>\n
Nkosingiphile Ngcamu, 16, died after being stabbed several times last October. <\/p>\n
Police spokeswoman Joey Jeevan said on Monday that Siyanda Sithole, 16, had been stabbed in the left shoulder and Zwelihle Mkhize, 17, three times in the back. <\/p>\n
Two groups of boys were involved in a fight on the school premises before 8am, she said. <\/p>\n
The vice-principal, Henry Dumisani Nxele, was calling the pupils to the assembly area when he noticed a 17-year-old pupil carrying a bush knife. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe confronted him and seized the bush knife from him.\u201d <\/p>\n
While he was addressing him in his office, Nxele heard noises outside, and then saw that Sithole had been stabbed. <\/p>\n
Mkhize was also on the ground bleeding. <\/p>\n
Jeevan said the suspects, who were pupils, ran away. <\/p>\n
The injured teenagers were taken to Edendale Hospital, where they are in a stable condition. Jeevan said the suspects would be arrested in the next few days. <\/p>\n
Pupils said they were afraid at school, and that searches for weapons were not done regularly. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Local councillor Bonginkosi Shange said meetings were ongoing in the community to discuss how to curb gang-related violence. <\/p>\n
Department of Education spokesman Sihle Mlotshwa said that the main problem appeared to be the formation of gangs in the community, which extended into the school. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe urge the community to fight that scourge and ensure the school is protected at all costs.\u201d <\/p>\n
The school\u2019s teachers refused to divulge information about the stabbing. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Mxolisi Mnwaba, the Department of Education circuit manager, referred all queries to the department. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
There has been an increase in school stabbings in the province this year. In March, a Clairwood schoolboy was killed by a classmate. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A month earlier, a pupil was killed by a classmate in an argument over a desk at Mandlenkosi High School, at Lindelani, near Ntuzuma. <\/p>\n
There have also been stabbings at KwaMashu\u2019s Kwesethu High School and Vryheid High School. <\/p>\n
Another pupil was killed at Siyanda High School in Sweetwaters, Pietermaritzburg. <\/p>\n
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