Youth 'killed by fellow pupil' at matric school camp

Social workers will visit a Limpopo school fraternity on Monday after a pupil was allegedly murdered at a matric school camp.

The Gauteng education department's spokesperson Steve Mabona says community members verbally abused department officials and the principal.
The Gauteng education department's spokesperson Steve Mabona says community members verbally abused department officials and the principal. (123RF)

Social workers will visit a Limpopo school fraternity on Monday after a pupil was allegedly murdered at a matric school camp.

Willem Ngoepe from the Mpirwabirwa Secondary School was attacked on Thursday evening and succumbed to injuries the next day, education MEC Mavhungu Lerule-Ramakhanya said.

“He was allegedly hit on the head with an object by another learner at the matric school camp,” she said.

Expressing her condolences to Ngoepe's family, Lerule-Ramakhanya promised psychosocial support would be offered from the department to teachers and pupils.

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