'His son mopped up blood'

WITH his father’s blood still flowing freely at Kayamandi Primary School, a grieving son found himself doing something no family should ever have to do — scrubbing the spot where his father had been shot and left to die only hours earlier.

- BY BRANDON NEL

And as he mopped the ground where deputy principal Mlamli Matshingana, 54, had fallen, he said it felt unreal to be wiping away the last traces of the man who had raised him and inspired him to become an educator.

Police spokesperson Sergeant Wesley Twigg said Matshingana was shot at about 1.30pm on 21 November and that the suspects were being sought.