28 November 2014 R1-20/FREE
Learners Lear ners drown during school function
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Page 2 Twohour chase result in arrests Pule Sebolao, the uncle of a recently deceased drowning victim, looks out on the scene where the incident occurred. Photo: Justin Steyn Justin Steyn, Andries van der Heyde A fun-filled event at Spa Park Primary ended in horror when the news broke that two of the school’s learners had drowned in the Bela-Bela dam. On Friday, 21 November, Kenny Maluleka and Bruce Manus, both 11 years old, allegedly left the school premises to join two of their friends, also learners at the school, on a swimming venture at the dam. According to the primary school’s principal Johan Adams, the school was hosting a fundraising event when the three boys left the school. They were
joined at the dam by another boy. “The school had done everything it could to ensure that our school was securely supervised. It is very unfortunate that something like this has happened. The details of what has happened are unclear and a concerned resident in the area notified us of the incident,” he said. Pule Sebolao, a paramedic at the Limpopo EMS and a relative of Manus, said that he had been notified of the incident while he was at the event at the school. “I received a call from the headmaster informing me of the incident. I was unaware that my cousin Bruce was one
of the victims until I identified his body,” he said. Sebolao explained that the area in which the bodies were found was very deep and that it was possible that they had been unaware of the depth where they were swimming. “The place where they had been swimming was not far from shore,” he said. “Neither boy knew how to swim and were unaware that they had strayed into very deep water.” A postmortem was performed on the same day and it has been determined that no foul play was involved. The funeral will be held on Saturday, 29 November.
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