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There was pandemonium at Maboleni Secondary School in Lower Gweru last week when teachers and pupils abandoned lessons after the school headmaster allegedly sprinkled blood in classrooms and teachers houses. Pupils and teachers refused to enter the classrooms after they found blood sprinkled on the doors while strange objects were suspended from the rafters.
It is alleged that the school headmaster hired an apostolic church to perform rituals at the school without the consent and knowledge of the parents and school teachers at the weekend.

Sometime in February, three pupils were attacked by hysteria and claimed to have been sent by Satanists to bring 55 litres of blood.
When The Herald crew arrived at the scene, blood stains were visible on floors and walls of several classrooms and teachers’ houses.
A scheduled meeting with the parents was later abandoned because those present did not constitute a quorum. Acting provincial education director Mr Aaron Matibenga confirmed receiving reports about the strange happenings at the school.

Contacted for comment, the headmaster referred all questions to Mr Matibenga.
A teacher who spoke on condition of anonymity said the headmaster went to Bulawayo where he brought a group of people whom he said were from an apostolic church and were supposed to perform a cleansing ceremony at the school.

The teacher said the headmaster went on to conduct the ceremony where members of the “church” were moving around singing and beating drums while holding a flag. – Herald.