School stabbing
NC teen to face criminal charges for allegedly fatally stabbing fellow pupil
Police said the accused stabbed to death the 14-year-old girl.
On Monday, 16-year-old Khuselo Ndanda was stabbed at Hillcrest Secondary School and former learner Michaela Booysen (17) was also killed in the area over the weekend.
The teenagers made their first appearance in the local magistrates court on Wednesday.
The grade 9 pupil was arrested but has now been released into the care of his parents after the charges against him were provisionally withdrawn.
On Tuesday, a grade nine pupil was stabbed by her schoolmate at the Reunion Secondary School in Isipingo, south of Durban.
The teenager allegedly stabbed the other boy with a pair of scissors at the Thuto-Tiro Comprehensive School on Monday in full view of other pupils.
The three suspects and the victim attended the same school.
A grade nine pupil was stabbed with a pair of scissors by a schoolmate on Monday. A pupil has been arrested after the stabbing.
Police said that the victim was stabbed with a pair of scissors and was declared dead on the scene.
It's understood the pupil was stabbed by a school mate with a pair of scissors at the Thuto-Tiro Comprehensive School in Sebokeng.
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Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi attended the memorial service of 16-year-old Daniel Bakwela who was stabbed to death last week.
They say if it had been their child who committed the alleged offenses he would not have been granted bail.
Judgment on a bail application was postponed to Monday after the Johannesburg Magistrates Court encountered problems with the accused's affidavit.
The department said security at the school premises and surrounds would be beefed up on Thursday with rumours rife that there might be retaliation.
The move comes after three boys were stabbed, one fatally, at Forest High on Monday.
Police said the suspect had given the school the wrong home address, but his family had come forward and was cooperating in the investigation.
A grade eight pupil from Forest High School in the south of Johannesburg has died after being stabbed in an apparent fight between two groups.
It was unclear what led to the deadly fight but according to pupils at the school, it was a fight between two groups.