A matric pupil who dreamed of becoming a lawyer has died a week after he was stabbed with a screwdriver.
|||Cape Town - A matric pupil who dreamed of becoming a lawyer has died a week after he was stabbed with a screwdriver. No one has been arrested yet.
Luzuko Ndongeni, 18, from Boston Private School, was stabbed while walking with friends in Goodwood near GrandWest Casino two weeks ago. He had apparently been attacked for his cellphone and was stabbed in the head and chest with a screwdriver.
He was treated at Cape Gate MediClinic but succumbed to his injuries last week.
This past weekend, his mother took his body to the Eastern Cape to be buried.
Boston Private School principal Barry Meyer said the incident had stunned the school.
“It was dreadful. He spent a week in intensive care and just about all of his classmates took some time to see him. He did not look good and I think doctors knew there wasn’t much more they could do for him, so everyone went to say their goodbyes,” Meyer said.
Luzuko had been at the school for the past two years and Meyer described him as a “hardworking and above average student”.
“His ambition was to become a lawyer, his subjects were geared that way and he was always talking to me and his grade head about what grades and points he needed to get into university for law. He was very focused,” he said.
Meyer added that his friends spoke very well of him with many saying he was “the life of the party”.
“He was also a good hockey player and just a genuinely sweet guy. This is an awful tragedy…” Meyer said.
Luzuko’s mother has just returned from the Eastern Cape after burying him on Saturday and said she was still too traumatised to speak to the Cape Times.
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Cape Times