Family begs school for answers after the death of their son, 10

A distraught father is pleading with school officials for answers after rushing from work following an emergency call, and finding his son dead. “I found my child lying on the floor. When I asked what happened, nobody gave us answers,” said Paulos Magakwe.

He says he has repeatedly asked the school to tell him who his son, Neo, 10, was playing with, or what happened, but alleges that nobody will help him. “I pleaded with the officials because we couldn’t pinpoint what happened to our son; nobody told us anything. We are arranging for funeral preparations,” he said.

Neo’s mother, Promise Mokgoatsane, said she had no words to describe how she felt. She said she had received a call from the school saying they were coming to fetch her as something had happened to her child. At the school she found her son lying dead in a pool of blood.

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“We found our son lying on the floor, severely injured from the head, chest and back. We are still trying to figure out how a goalpost fell on him.” “When I arrived at school, the paramedics were already removing the oxygen mask and covering him with foil,” she said. When she asked the principal and educators what had happened, there was no clear response.

“I asked the educators and principal about the cause of death, and all they would tell me was that my child had got hurt, but they don’t know how,” she said. Neo’s grandmother, Agnes Mokgoatsane, is angry about the many unanswered questions. She said she was at home in Limpopo when she received the news and immediately made her way to Johannesburg. “We were shocked to hear the news and had to leave everything and attend to the issue,” she said.

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