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With an entire school able to identify the known attackers, police have yet to arrest them…

  August 01 2009  Natasha Prince and Leila Samodien of the Cape Argus report that an unnamed teenager who was expelled from St Andrews High School in Elsies Rivier, Cape Town  was filmed storming into a crowded classroom with his brother, attacking and injuring pupil Lloyd Mtshoezeni, 17, in front of terrified classmates – after searching for the victim from classroom to classroom…

The dramatic attack was captured by surveillance cameras in the classroom at the Elsies River school. Cape Town’s most-read newspaper splashed four pictures from the camera footage across its front page.

• The Grade-11 boy who was attacked, Lloyd Mtshozeni, 17, was in a mechanical technology class at St Andrews High at the time. 
• He told the Weekend Argus how he had to fight off the two attackers while his classmates just looked on, too terrified to intervene. Lloyd said it all began at around 11am on Thursday during break - when he saw a school security guard arguing with a boy and two of his friends. The guard had told them to leave. He recognised the boy as an (unnamed) former pupil one grade below him who lived opposite the school. He had been expelled months before. The argument turned violent he said, with the boy throwing punches at the guard. Lloyd intervened.

"The security guard's lip started bleeding. I didn't know if he could handle the guy alone, that's why I stepped in." Lloyd said he tried to talk to the boy, but he reacted aggressively. "There was no talking to him - he didn't want to listen; he wanted to fight."The youth fled but about half an hour later came back with his older brother, and armed with weapons… and they went from classroom to classroom, looking for the hapless pupil until they found him. And the worst is yet to come: the police, although knowing the youths’ identities, have yet to arrest them, although they have left behind an entire school of traumatised and scared pupils who all identified the attackers…. Read the entire story This article was originally published on page 1 of Cape Argus on August 01, 2009