KARATE BOY FIGHTS OFF MOLESTERS

MBABANE – A 16-year-old boy, attending karate lessons, was able to fight off three men, who had kidnapped and tried to molest him.

The grade six pupil at Mahlanya Primary School share his inspirational story, which  happened during the time of the 2018 national elections.
According to Joseph Dlamini, the minor’s grandfather, the perpetrators kidnapped Menzi Dludlu at Mahlanya.

“He was only able to escape in Lozitha after he broke one of the perpetrators’ arm using his Shotokan karate skills,” said Dlamini.
The old man said the three kidnappers started touching the minor in an in inappropriate way but he managed to flee after they were distracted by his retaliation. Dlamini said a statement was recorded with the Lobamba police and the family was thankful to Dludlu’s karate instructor Sensei Wandile Masina.
“If it were not for his karate skills, we would probably have lost him on that day but he was able to escape,” said the grandparent.

The minor said his Shotokan karate skills helped him a lot as the strangers were violent towards him.
“They grabbed me by my clothes and I was really frightened because they were driving me to a place I did not know. I had no other choice but to fight for my life and I was able to escape,” said the minor.  In this past weekend’s students grading event from the brown belt to the black belt at the Serindipity Gym in Mbabane, the minor’s instructor Sensei Wandile Masina mentioned the boy’s story as one of his (the instructor) achievements.

Currently, the sensei has roughly 200 children under his instruction all over the country.
Some of his successes he said included Dludlu, who defended himself when faced with an extremely dangerous situation.
“There is a young boy who was almost molested around Malkerns and he was able to fight off his attackers because he had been doing karate for two years or so and it was such a big thing for his family that his grandmother personally came to thank the school for offering karate lessons,” he said.

Masina has been doing Shotokan karate Since 1997, and has been an instructor at the Eswatini International Shotokan Karate Dojo for the past 17years.  
He established the dojo, which he runs from Mbabane at Serendipity Gym as well as through various schools, as means to assisting parents and caregivers to raise children who are diligent, have self-control, the right attitude, and who put extensive effort into everything that they do while observing solid principles of sincerity and etiquette.
“What is important is that children grow up knowing that these are all principles that they can apply in everyday life,” said the sensei.

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