/ 21 August 2000

ENRAGED PUPILS STONE ABDUCTORS TO DEATH

A MOB of enraged pupils stoned to death on Tuesday two men who seriously wounded a woman teacher and shot dead her lover at a rural high school in KwaZulu-Natal. Police said the two men arrived at the Isembela High School, near Inanda Dam, about 20 kilometres north of the Durban, with the teacher’s lover, whom they had abducted earlier. The men called the teacher out of the classroom. “On seeing her, they shot the abducted man and then fired upon the teacher,” Naidoo said. “The motive appears to be related to a lovers’ quarrel,” he said. The teacher was apparently also involved in a relationship with one of the abductors. The pupils turned on the killers and stoned them to death.