An O-Level pupil at a high school in Beitbridge has killed herself after being taunted as dull and reprimanded for selling Avon products at the school.
Loveness Mazarire (19) of St Mary’s Secondary School in Beitbridge committed suicide by consuming rat poison. Sources close to the case said things got to a head on Friday when one of the teachers told her guardian that she was very dull and that she spent time selling Avon products at the school.
“This angered the guardian who thoroughly beat her up. We understand she could not take the embarrassment of being labelled dull and decided to take her own life. She drank rat poison before hiding under a bed in her bedroom,” said the source who preferred anonymity. “Her relatives later found her writhing in agony and bleeding from both the nose and mouth.”
The source said Mazarire was rushed to the district hospital where she succumbed to poisoning on Monday.
Matabeleland South Provincial Education Director, Mrs Tumisang Tabela, said she was yet to get a report on the matter.
