Outrage over fatal shooting of school principal and extortion threats in Eastern Cape
Technology tamfitronics Parliament's select committee on education, technology and the creative industries has condemned the brazen shooting of a school principal in front of teachers and pupils in the Eastern Cape.The principal of Zakhele primary school at KwaBhaca in the Alfred Nzo West district was killed on the premises by a lone gunman on Wednesday.Provincial education MEC Fundile Gade said the shooter escaped on foot into a nearby forest.Gade said in a separate incident, a group of thugs stormed the home of a nurse from the Efata School for the Blind in Mthatha and demanded payment of R50,000. The nurse refused and was robbed of his phone, laptop and television.“The same criminals sent a short message (sms) to the principal demanding the same ransom. A case of extortion has been opened with...