<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nVolgens getuies het ongeveer tien leerlinge van die skool, wat seuns en meisies insluit, die veiligheidswag by die swembad genader en gevra of hulle water by die kraan by die swembad kon drink. Die kinders het blykbaar ges\u00ea dat hulle dors was weens die bloedige hitte toe hulle vanaf die skool op pad terug huis toe was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Katleho en nog \u2019n leerling het egter agtergebly toe die res klaar water gedrink het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het van sy klere uitgetrek en in die swembad gespring, waarna hy in die moeilikheid beland het. Katleho was nie \u2019n goeie swemmer nie en sy maat het verbete probeer om hom te red, maar kon hom nie uit die water trek nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die maat het hulp by die veiligheidswag gaan soek, maar Katleho het toe reeds verdrink. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maitse s\u00ea herstelwerk aan die swembad moet gedoen word, en dit is geruime tyd reeds nie in gebruik nie en daarom gesluit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daar was dus met die voorval geen menseredder aan diens nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Dihlabeng-nood\u00addienste is onmiddellik n\u00e1 die voorval na die toneel ontbied, waar personeel probeer het om die swembad leeg te pomp om Katleho op te spoor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die soektog is bemoeilik weens die troebel water wat so lank reeds in die swembad staan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Professionele duiker het gehulp aangebied en het Katleho se lyk gevind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Intussen het die munisipaliteit in samewerking met die derpartement van maatskaplike ontwikkeling traumaberading vir die leerlinge gere\u00ebl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jeff Vilakazi, \u2019n raadslid van die EFF in Dihlabeng meen die voorval het weens die nalatigheid van die munisipaliteit plaasgevind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns het reeds agt maande gelede gevra dat daar dringend aandag aan die twee munisipale swembaddens in Bethlehem geskenk word. Die swembaddens is in \u2019n haglike toestand. Ons het vrae en wonder ook hoekom die veiligheidswag nie die kinders vergesel het toe hulle gaan water drink het nie. Die hele sitsuasie is onaanvaarbaar.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hilton Maasdorp, DA-koukusleier in Dihlabeng, het in \u2019n verklaring ges\u00ea hulle betreur die afsterwe van die seun en betuig hul innige simpatie aan sy familie en vriende. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maasdorp s\u00ea op die DA se navraag oor hoekom die swembad vol water is wanneer dit nie in gebruik is nie, het die munisi\u00adpaliteit geantwoord dat dit s\u00f3 gedoen word om verdere skade aan die veselglasswembadstruktuur te voorkom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie opknapping en beveiling van die swem\u00adbaddens is van kardinale belang, en nou meer as vantevore,\u201d s\u00ea Maasdorp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AO Mmako Mophiring, polisiewoordvoerder, s\u00ea \u2019n geregtelike doodsondersoek word gedoen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Katleho se begrafnis word op Sondag 17 Maart om 09:00 by die Ho\u00ebrskool Ntsu gehou. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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