The provincial education department contributed R100,000 towards the burial of slain Mgezwa Senior Secondary teacher Aphiwe Qaba in Lusikisiki and promised to employ his widow who is a qualified unemployed teacher and mother of their 18-month baby girl. Commitment was made that in memory of Qaba, 27, a classroom at the school would be named after him and the school would seek to achieve a 100% matric pass.
An Eastern Cape schoolteacher who drove 20km to get medical help with a bullet lodged in his leg while his injured colleague lay bleeding in the passenger’s seat, has relived the gruesome ordeal. The two Lusikisiki educators, together with a colleague who escaped unharmed, were ambushed and had multiple bullets sprayed into their vehicle by an unknown gunman when they returned home from teaching evening classes last week.