UCT to provide counselling to students following Cebo Mbatha stabbing
The University of Cape Town is providing counselling to students, after a first year student from KwaZulu-Natal was murdered at Cape Town's Clifton Third Beach at the weekend.
UCT says 19-year-old Cebo Mhleli Mbatha was stabbed to death when two assailants tried to rob a group of students of their cellphones on Saturday night.
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One other student was injured and is recovering in hospital, while two others were not physically harmed.
Police have not made any arrests.
Mbatha was a student in the Humanities Department.
Mbatha's killing comes weeks after the murder of UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana.
Dear students,
— Film and Media (UCT) (@FilmandMediaUCT) September 30, 2019
Some of you might already have heard the terrible news that a UCT student was murdered on Clifton Beach on Saturday night in an attempted robbery. The victim, Cebo Mbatha, was a first-year humanities student from our department.
Remembering our brother, cousin and friend Cebo "Cheese" Mbatha#RestInPeace pic.twitter.com/08vkUivn73
— UCT SRC (@UCT_SRC) September 30, 2019