A man with a stolen gun was disarmed by a Tembisa high school principal on Tuesday, Tembisa police said.
Captain Manyadza Ralidzhivha said three pupils ran to the principal’s office to tell him that an armed man was in one of the classes.
The 47-year-old Bokamoso High School principal informed the police and went to investigate.
He found a man standing at the classroom door.
”One of the students pointed out the suspect to the principal. The principal grabbed him and disarmed him.”
Ralidzhivha said the man then overpowered the principal, ran out of the class, jumped the fence and disappeared.
A case of pointing a firearm was opened by the three pupils and the docket was combined with a charge of trespassing.
The gun was handed to police and found to have been stolen from a security company in 2004 and had a Melville police station case number.
There was no ammunition in the gun. — Sapa