Daily Voice 2023-10-05

Heideveld High School has received backlash on Facebook after it made a U-turn on inviting a former pupil, who is now wheelchair-bound, to attend their matric ball. The school invited Chelse Leigh Tiemie, 17, who would have been in matric this year, to their farewell ball, but then apparently changed their minds. The teen was nearly killed on October 17, 2020 when she was hit by a car while walking on Duinefontein Road in Heideveld. Chelse and six of her friends had come from Usave when a white VW CiTi Golf jumped a red robot and knocked her, and she landed on her head. She was left permanently disabled and was unable to continue her schooling. Now, almost three years later, her dad Alrich Willis says they were overjoyed when…