When Yves Kadilo said farewell to his younger brother, Enock Mpianzi, on Wednesday morning outside Parktown Boys’ High School, he did not know that would be the last time he saw him alive.
“I still do not know what really happened to my son. I was there on Thursday and on Friday. Today is Saturday and yet I still do not know what happened.”“If I have to go to court, I will do that. We did not plan to lose a son and I will do whatever it takes to get answers,” he said. “We gave the school our child for education purposes, and then something happens, so they must be accountable.
“After we searched around we proposed that we go to the bush where the children had slept the previous night. While we were with the MEC for education [Panyaza Lesufi], he approached me and told me that they had seen something using the camera in the river but they were not sure if it was a human body or something else.
“The body was fresh; he had blood on the face, nose, there was blood in the eyes also but we could not look any further. He was very pale.” The school is supposed to be a safe place where precautions are taken to ensure our children are safe. If this is not done, then someone must explainYesterday labour federation Cosatu called on the department of education to intervene and prevent schools from sending pupils to camps.
Kodiemoka said the family was informed that the trip was for educational purposes, “which turned out not to be so”. North West police spokesperson Colonel Adele Myburgh told City Press yesterday that the pupils were not wearing life jackets even though they were taking part in water-related activities.
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