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DURBAN. — The Lesotho school boy, 16-year-old Madiehe Letsoela, killed during a freak accident in central Durban on Thursday, was on his way home after a four-day educational tour in KwaZulu-Natal when the incident occurred.
Deputy principal of Molapo High School in Leribe, Lesotho, Kabelo Maqache said: “We were on an educational tour to Durban and had just checked out of the Durban hotel, where we (had been) staying since Sunday. We were leaving for home in two buses that were following each other.
“The bus at the back was carrying 45 children and I was in that bus.
“Unfortunately one of our pupils looked out of the window and as he did that, he hit an electric pole on the side of the road.
“I believe he died instantly.”
“I am too traumatised at the moment.
Blood spatter could be seen on the ground and on the wall from a distance as the police cordoned off the road.
“Where is my child,” were the only words a mother could utter when she was told her teenage son had died a horrific death.
Not long after the news was conveyed to her, she had to be admitted to hospital to be treated for shock.
On Thursday, Moses Phoole, the principal of Molapo High School, was the man tasked with breaking the news to the Letsoela family that their son would not be returning home from the school tour in South Africa.
Speaking from Lesotho, Phoole told News24 that he received a call from his deputy at around 13:15 on Thursday, informing him of the tragedy.
“He told me that three quarters of his (Madiehe’s) head was cut off.”
Phoole knew he had the responsibility of informing the teenager’s parents about the tragedy.
Immediately after the phone call he, together with the school governing body members, made their way to Letsoela family.
“When we told his father Morena the news he went cold, but he later accepted what had happened.
“But his mother, she kept asking us, ‘Where is my child?’
“She did not cry. She hasn’t cried, not a single tear, it’s heartbreaking,” said Phoole. — News24.
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