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By Robin-Lee Francke 
8h ago
Cape Town – An Eastern Cape principal and two security guards have been arrested in connection with a murder at a school last month, local media reported Thursday.
According to DispatchLive, the victim, Bulelani Nocuze, 29, was found in a pool of his own blood at Smuts Ndamase Secondary School in Nkanga-Mbhobheleni village in Libode on August 23.
Nocuze was found face down between containers in a locked warehouse on the premises. His hands were tied behind his back and he had been beaten with sticks and blunt objects.
The three men between 39 and 58 years old implicated in the murder are the director and two security guards who were detained by the police on Monday.
According to the publication, the spokesman for the Eastern Cape Provincial Police, Brigadier Thembinkosi Kinana, confirmed the arrests.
The trio briefly appeared in Libode Magistrates Court on Tuesday and the matter was suspended until Friday.
Warrant Officer Bronze Nocuze, who is a relative of the deceased, told TimesLive that the area of the school where his nephew’s body was found looked like a “slaughterhouse” with blood splattered all over the walls and floors and broken sticks nearby.
He called the murder inhuman and said a trail of blood led from the school’s main gate to the administration building.
Provincial education spokesman Loyiso Pulumani told the publication at the time that “it was a shocking turn of events” and that the incident did not help the existing instability within the school.
An urgent community meeting was called immediately after Nocuze’s gruesome death that shook the community.
African News Agency (ANA)
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