Child killers still at large

MOOKGOPHONG – To date no arrests had been made in connection with the brutal killing of three children in Mookgophong. 
     The bodies of Bafana Kekana (9), Hosea Richard Kekana, 10, and Johana Kekana, 12, were found after they had been stoned to death. Their hands and feet were bound with shoelaces.
    They were last seen on August 15 during a march to demand more teachers at their school, Dikobo Primary.
Johana, the girl, was raped before being killed. The three lived at the Montadi Youth Care Centre. Bafana and Hosea were brothers. They lived at the centre because their grandmother, who looked after them, was sometimes hospitalised.
Meanwhile the Democratic Alliance has written to Limpopo Education MEC Dickson Masemola demanding that he address chronic problems at the school.
The party says enquiries about the primary school have revealed that it is facing an acute shortage of educators to the extent that these learners were not taught in three subjects since January this year. As a result, the June reports for Dikobo Primary learners show blank spaces where marks for English, Natural Sciences and Technology are meant to be filled.
The schools’ problems were compounded this year by the fact that five teachers were moved from Dikobo Primary, already with a vacancy of five teachers from 2011, to fill the gap in a new school in the area, Mookgopong Primary School.
“These three learners spent the last hours before their brutal murder protesting for their right to a basic education.
"The least the Education Department can do is fix the problems at this school without delay,” the DA said in a press statement.
“Learners must be in class during learning times and not be protesting about what is essentially their basic right. If learners are not in class, they are exposed to all sorts of bad things as has happened in this case.”
At the time of going to print the premier’s spokesperson, Pat Kgomo, could not be reached for comment.