The provincial Education Department sent officials to investigate gangsterism at Bulumko Secondary School in Khayelitsha.
|||Cape Town - The Western Cape Education Department sent officials to investigate gangsterism at Bulumko Secondary School in Khayelitsha this morning after a group of former pupils carrying knives jumped the fence and threatened schoolchildren and staff.
No one was harmed in the incident yesterday and the gang fled after spending some time at the school.
Last week a resident of F-Section, who lives near the school, contacted the Cape Argus to report the murder of Ayanda Ngetu, 25, in a street fight in the early hours of the previous Monday morning.
A senior teacher at the school, who asked not to be named for safety reasons, confirmed that the school has been at the centre of a gang war between teenage pupils from surrounding areas for months. The department has since described Monday’s incident as “gang-related”.
Hours after Ngetu was buried on Saturday, a fight broke out in Tanga Street. Zimvo Kanyiso Jaxa, 18, died at the scene and two boys were taken to hospital with stab wounds.
Police have opened a murder docket, but no arrests have yet been made, spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Andrè Traut said.
Cape Argus