THERE is a cloud hanging over the Gauteng Education Department.
This is according to sangoma Nzama Maluleka from Meadowlands, Soweto, who was asked by Daily Sun to throw the bones to check what was wrong with the department.
Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has appealed for divine intervention in the wake of a spate of deaths in Gauteng schools since the beginning of the new academic year.
Enoch Mpianzi (13) drowned during an orientation camp at the Nyati Bush and River Break Lodge in Brits, North West.
Keamohetswe Seboko (13) drowned in a hostel swimming pool at Laerskool Bekker in Magaliesburg.
Laticia Jansen (15) of Graceland Education Centre was stabbed, raped and burnt to death. Principal Emmanuel Tshivhase of Jabulile Secondary School in Orange Farm was shot dead in his car. Three teachers from Riverlea High School died in a horrific car accident.
A pupil at Radineo Primary School in Mabopane, aged nine, died in a classroom on 4 February with a grade 8 pupil from Bophelong Secondary School dying on the same day.
Also on 4 February, a pupil at Belvedere Special School died apparently after drinking poison.
Nzama said when a pupil or a teacher died, there had to be a cleansing ceremony.
“The department should also take the traditional route. They can ask a sangoma to cleanse the schools,” he said.
