Cape Town – As he lay bleeding from a stab wound to the chest, a promising young rugby player’s mother tried desperately to save him.

But her efforts were in vain and on Saturday 18-year-old Abdul-Hadi Manuel’s family laid him to rest.

The Grade 11 pupil at Alexander Sinton High School was stabbed outside a corner shop near his home in Belgravia in Athlone on Wednesday.

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