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PHS-leerder se dood betreur

Die gr.9-leerder is vandag beskryf as 'n goue kind met 'n diamanthart.

Die PHS-gemeenskap is vandag in rou na die skielike afsterwe van ‘n gr.9-leerder aan dié skool, Dietrich Scholtz.

PHS-skoolhoof, Adolf Ellis het in ‘n skrywe die skool se medelye oorgedra.

Hy het leerders gerusgestel dat hulle gevoelens van hartseer, verlies en verwarring, normaal is en hulle aangemoedig om met mekaar te praat, en ondersteuning te soek by hulle ouers, die skool se berader, onderwysers of ander volwassenes wat hulle kan help om hulle emosies in dié moeilike tyd te verwerk.

“Dit is belangrik om na mekaar om te sien en om empatie en vriendelikheid te betoon. Ons skoolgemeenskap is ‘n veilige hawe waarbinne julle ondersteuning en liefde kan vind. Reik uit. Daar is geen twyfel dat ons in die komende dae, weke en maande deur ‘n proses van rou en herstel sal gaan. Mag ons mekaar bemoedig en mekaar ondersteun, terwyl ons saam hierdie pad loop. Ons sal die herinneringe aan ons geliefde Dietrich in ons harte dra en ons sal hom nooit vergeet nie.”

Me. Ilze Malan, die gr.9-graadhoof, het in ‘n huldeblyk geskryf Dietrich was ‘n goue kind met ‘n diamanthart.

“Dis so ‘n donker dag vir PHS. My gemoed is swaar en seer om te rou oor die ‘goofy’ glimlag. Sy stoel is nou leeg. Dietrich, ek wens jy kon jouself deur my oë sien!”
Review betoon medelye met die Scholtz-gesin in dié tyd.

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Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. – Tom Stoppard

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