A NORTHERN Province school principal has pleaded guilty in the Calcutta Magistrate’s Court to raping a 13-year-old pupil on his office floor. Deck Mabudze (42) who heads Harvest Rock Combined School in Kildare trust in Calcutta, Bushbuckridge, was remanded in custody on Monday and the case was postponed to September 18 for judgement and sentencing. Mabudze confessed to raping the child after he summoned her to his office last Wednesday afternoon. He kicked her chair and when she fell to the ground, he leapt on her, stripped off her uniform and raped her. When she got home, she told her parents what happened and they immediately alerted the police. – African Eye News Service