Is there a thokoloshi at kalamare primary school?

The thought of Kalamare Primary School as an avenue of acquiring education has been replaced with anguish.Women converse in low voices in groups under trees. There is an ignition of sorrow once the subject is brought forth; the girl pupil is the most endangered as only one boy has been affected. By last Thursday, 18 children had collapsed mysteriously at the school.

Parents fear for their children's lives. Last Tuesday, the fear bred truancy at the school as pupils unilaterally stayed away. A 42-year-old mother whose 11-year-old daughter is among the 18 pupils who have collapsed and fainted at the school said she will not let her child to suffer at the hands of a mysterious creature. In fact, the girl and her sibling (who is in standard two) have not been to the school since Tuesday last week. "My children are not going back to the school until religious bodies have intervened and removed that thing," she said.