Video shows mugging of KZN schoolboy

The Grade 8 pupil of Kingsway High School is seen in the footage sitting outside the school gate at about 4.15pm. He is playing on his cellphone while several cars exit the school gate. Pedestrians were walking up Umdoni Road, while the road was busy with after-school traffic, South Coast Sun reported.

A man is seen walking down the road stops in front of the school entrance to seemingly pick up something from the ground. The same man, however, then appears in the foreground a few seconds later and plucks the cellphone from the boy’s hands.

The boy frantically tried to wrestle it away from the thief. However, he loses the struggle and is seen chasing after the man. Soon after, alerted by the sounds of his shouts, the pedestrians who had earlier walked up the road are seen running down to assist.

The pupil later reported the incident to police, who have yet to make an arrest.

Watch the video here.

In January, a 15-year-old boy was dragged by a car along Beyers Naude Drive, close to Melville, Johannesburg after he attempted to resist a cellphone robbery. According to Ward 87 councillor Amanda Forsythe, a concerned resident in the area called to inform her the boy had been found injured and needed help.

The pupil had been walking home with a friend after school when a car with at least two occupants stopped next to them. One of the men then got out of the car and grabbed the boy’s cellphone. The teen resisted, clung on to the assailants’ car and was subsequently dragged along the road for a few 100 metres.

– Caxton News Service