The KZN Department of Education says it is concerned and disturbed about the number of incidents where teachers are attacked and killed.

This follows the killing of the school principal from Delani Primary School in Mariannhill, Durban, who was shot yesterday afternoon. He was rushed to hospital where he died.

It is alleged the school principal was talking with a security guard when he was gunned down.

Departmental spokesperson Muzi Mahlambi told The Witness that as a department they are disturbed by such incidents.

“It is very painful that someone leaves home for work and they never go back home. I cannot even imagine what it is like for the family who were expecting him to come back from work.

“No one expects that they can be attacked at work. The teachers are going to be traumatised and they will start leaving the school where these incidents happen because they are scared.”

He said it looks like schools have become an easy target for criminals and it is taking back the department as it now has to fill the principal’s position.

Mahlambi added that they are still dealing with an incident where a department official was assaulted this week while monitoring examinations.

“We hope that the police are going to leave no stone unturned in finding the perpetrators.”

Police are yet to comment on the matter.

Another shooting in Durban

The fatal incident isn’t the only shooting incident to rock a Durban suburb this week.

Southlands Sun reports that a man in Carlton Avenue on The Bluff had to be stabilised by paramedics after he was shot in his abdomen earlier today.

“One male, believed to be in his 40s, sustained a gunshot wound to his abdomen. He was in a serious condition and was stabilised before he was rushed to a nearby hospital for the further care that he required,” said ALS Paramedics spokesperson Garrith Jamieson.