It is also in the school, Sisusa Secondary, the village war in Bumbulu is said to have been going on for some time.
It is a country found out that the villages in question are in Makholweni and Nkomokazi.
On Friday at noon, it is said that there are bones in this school when the students of these villages got into a fight.
The source said the dispute started after a student from Nkomokazi teased another about the shoes he was wearing.
He said that after that there was a fight and one student Mthobisi Ngcongo (18) who is studying Grade 11 was seriously injured and he was rushed to the hospital.
The student’s parent, Mrs Mabusi Ngcongo, said It is a country that his son was badly injured as someone threw a stone at him and broke his jaw.
He complained that his son is in a bad condition as he was told at the hospital that it will take a long time before he can eat properly. He revealed that all his son’s teeth were tied with wire.
”This is very painful for my child and it is treating me badly. After all, it is clear that this person only intended to kill the real thing. I don’t know what to call this if it’s like this,” he said, sounding disappointed.
He revealed that his child has been told by doctors that he will live on straws and he will be feeding them through a straw.
”Just tell me what kind of thing that is. The way the doctors describe it, you can see that this person is really injured. I feel very bad about what happened to my son,” he explained.
He continued to cry loudly saying that he does not believe that the principal has handled this issue in a polite way because now the student who hurt his son has not been suspended and told to continue studying.
“I don’t want to lie I’m just not happy this is real,” explained the parent.
He said he is worried about what will happen if his son meets the person who wanted to kill him but failed?
He said that they did not open the case because the mother of the injured student came and humbled herself to him and apologized and asked for the matter to be properly discussed without involving the law enforcement.
He pointed out that this is an old war between these villages but it does not end and he said that the sad thing is that it ends up disturbing learning at school.
Mr. Neverdie Shange who is the chairman of the governing body of the school admitted that he was aware of the incident, but denied that it was a village war. His mouth was filled with this and he said it was nonsense.
“The children were just fighting for friendship and fighting for what they want, but what you mean by village war is not there,” he said.
The spokesperson for the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education, Mr. Muzi Mahlambi, strongly condemned the incident. He lamented that the village war should not end up spreading inside the school grounds.
This he said is totally unacceptable.
“The sad thing is that the department has said that when we send the teachers to schools that have this problem, they do not want to go there because they are confused by the fact that there are wars in that area,” he said.
He called for something to be done in this area to ensure that this does not interfere with learning at school.