GEORGE NEWS - A local teacher was stabbed twice in the hand by a chisel-wielding learner last week, one of a spate of recent attacks on teachers.
The attack on Wednesday 12 September happened in the woodwork classroom at Van Kervel School during class time.
The teacher received medical treatment and was booked off for the rest of the week while the learner was suspended from the school hostel as a precaution until his scheduled disciplinary hearing.
A source within the school said there was a heated altercation between the teacher and the learner earlier that day after the learner allegedly sawed a koki pen in half with an electric saw.
The learner had also previously been reprimanded and fined when he threw a piece of wood at a school window, shattering the glass.
Millicent Merton, spokesperson for the Western Cape Education Department (WCED), said the learner had been reprimanded by the teacher for entering the woodwork class without permission.
"His reaction was to fetch a sharp instrument to hurt the teacher."
She said the department is investigating the incident.
The teacher has reported Wednesday's incident to the police.
Violent attacks on teachers in class have reached shocking levels across the country.
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