Lufuno Mavhunga suicide: ANC Youth League, Cosas protest at Department of Basic Education
By Goitsemang Tlhabye
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The regional ANC Youth League alongside the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) have taken the plight of Limpopo learner Lufuno Mavhunga and mental illness to the doorstep of the Department of Basic Education.
Lindokuhle Xulu, an ANC youth league activist, said they came to demonstrate outside the department to demand justice for Mavhunga and propel the department towards the implementation of the integrated school health programme.
The 15-year-old learner from Mbilwi Secondary School in Thohoyandou, Limpopo committed suicide following the release of video footage of the learner being bullied and beaten by a fellow learner.
Limpopo Education MEC Polly Boshielo, MEC for Social Developmen in the Limpopo legislature Nkakareng Rakgoale and other government officials surrounding Lufuno Mavhunga s coffin during her funeral at the Spirit Ambassador International Church in Thoyondou, Limpopo Limpopo. Picture: Rosetta Msimango/City Press
All the Mavhunga family did was send their teenage daughter to school with the hopes of her getting the education she deserved, not knowing that the place she was meant to feel safe, failed to protect her.
Speaking at the funeral of Lufuno Mavhunga, at the Spirit Ambassadors International Church in Nzhelele in Limpopo on Saturday, her uncle Dakalo Netshivhazwaulu said he could not wrap his head around how his niece died.
15 April 2021 - 10:04 Thohoyandou police have arrested a schoolgirl at Mbilwi Secondary School for allegedly assaulting another pupil who later died in an apparent suicide. File photo. Image: SUHAIB SALEM
Scores have welcomed the arrest of a 15-year old Grade 10 pupil from Mbilwi Secondary School in the Vhembe east education district in Limpopo, over the assault of fellow pupil Lufuno Mavhunga.
Mavhunga, also in Grade 10, allegedly committed suicide earlier this week after a video of her being confronted by two schoolgirls went viral on social media. The video shows one of the girls slapping her countless times across the face while pupils cheered the alleged perpetrator.
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Wednesday 14 April 2021 - 6:37am
Bullying at school has resurfaced. That s after a video of a bullying incident surfaced on social media. The footage shows a pupil slapping another across the face multiple times in an attack that s said to have happened at Mbilwi Secondary School in Thohoyandou. To talk more on this is Limpopo Education Spokesperson, Tidimalo Chuene. Courtesy #DStv403
JOHANNESBURG - A criminal case is set to be opened against all pupils involved in the bullying incident that happened at Mbilwi Secondary School in Thohoyandou.
That s after a video surfaced on social media.
It shows a pupil slapping another across the face multiple times.