Local and Long Distance Taxi Association
(MALLDTA) Stemmer Monageng accompanied by community leader Danny Mbiza with the aunt and father of the late Lethabo Matula photo by Dimakatso Modipa
Chairperson of Mamelodi Local and Long Distance Taxi Association (MALLDTA)Stemmer Monageng has lended a helping hand towards the burial of slain learner Lethabo Matula of Mamelodi East Extension 11.
Lethabo Matula was stabbed to death on June 17 outside the Lesedi Secondary School yard in Skierlik where he was a Grade 11 learner.
Two boys, who are also learners at the selfsame school have been arrested in connection with his killing.
Lethabo Matula will be buried on Saturday 28 June 2025.
Monageng told Tshwane Talks that after reading about the brutal murder of Lethabo Matula he became distraught and decided to visit the family so as to offer his condolences.
Taxi Association
(MALLDTA) Stemmer Monageng accompanied by community leader Danny Mbiza with the father of the late Lethabo Matula and monitoring team donating groceries photo by Dimakatso Modipa
“As MALLDTA we then decided to help where we can and we therefore bought groceries for the family and have also offered transport which will ferry mourners to the cemetery,” he said.
“We are so touched by the way young Lethabo has been murdered and we are with the family during this time of their bereavement and are ready to help,” he said.
“As MALLDTA we help each and every family that is in dire need of help irrespective of who they are or which political party or religion they are affiliated to,” explained Monageng.
He appealed to the government to intervene and stop the culture of bullying at schools once and for all so that schools would become “bullying-free zones.”
In response to Monageng’s kind gesture, Lethabo Matula’s aunt Shirley Mokonyane said the following:
“We are grateful to Mr Monageng for the kind donation he has made to the family because we had asked the Lesedi Secondary school for some financial assistance but we were told that the school itself is financially constrained and as a result we were left stranded not knowing how we would be able to give a dignified burial to Lethabo.”
She added that what Monageng and MALLDTA have done to the family is commendable indeed and urged them to also help other families who are also in need of help when faced with circumstances that are similar to those that the Matula family finds itself in.