A GRADE 6 pupil at St Peters Primary School in Mazwi Village, a settlement on the outskirts of Bulawayo, has reportedly suffered brain damage after she was assaulted by her classmates for restraining them from abusing school chalks.
After the assault, the victim suffered pressure of speech, which in psychological terms is used to describe a speech pattern that is intense, excessive and fast, often making it difficult to interpret what the speaker is saying.
Rackel Muzamba (13) developed the condition after she was heavily assaulted by six of her classmates in a bush last week.
She is said to have stopped her classmates from abusing chalks while their teacher was away.
This did not go well with the other classmates, who then assaulted her.
They waited for her in the bush, further assaulted her and left her unconscious until a pupil who was passing by saw her and called for help from a nearby village.
“I engaged the school authorities. They had a meeting with the parents of the children that assaulted her, but they [parents] said they do not have money to help me. I went to the Social Welfare (Department) and they referred me to Mpilo Central Hospital,” Precious Muzamba, the victim’s mother, said.
She said the children’s guardians had been approached twice by the school head, but they kept saying they did not have money to help her with the bills needed at the hospital, until her daughter was discharged.
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Muzamba said she did not report the matter to the police as she wanted to first have an understanding with the parents as adults, believing they were going to cooperate.
“She was discharged yesterday (Thursday) from the hospital. She has been saying a lot of things I could not understand,” she said as she narrated what her daughter was going through.
“At one point, she said she was seeing things. I suspect a brain damage. On top of that, she is failing to go to the toilet, this is the fourth day.”
Muzamba said they do not have money to purchase the prescribed paracetamol tablets, adding that her husband is deceased.
