Priscilla Mchunu was a 54-year-old acting principal when she was assassinated. She was gunned down with an astonishing 19 bullets while teaching her high school history class. An entire class of Laduma High students watched her murder and still, more than two years later, no arrests have been made.



This is the story of Priscilla’s assassination. Who would kill an acting principal and why? How do you investigate a case when anyone who gets too close can be assassinated?



By exploring this case over six podcast episodes investigative journalist and author Paul McNally follows the threads, talks to those who were there, and discovers the ins and outs of a troubling growth industry of assassinations in KwaZulu-Natal and South Africa. If Priscilla, a highly-praised acting principal at a high school just outside of Pietermaritzburg, can be assassinated - then anyone with a little bit of power can become a target. And it seems to take increasingly little for respected members of a community to turn to hired killers.



The scariest part of this investigation is that the strongest suspects in this case are other teachers at the school, Priscilla’s colleagues and supposed mentors for the highschooler at Laduma. As the story unfolds through first-person accounts and McNally’s search for answers, an alleged conspiracy to get Priscilla’s job by any means necessary comes into shocking focus.



Follow Priscilla’s story and the search for the truth behind her tragic death in Laduma High - the new series of the award-winning investigate podcast Alibi. The full first episode launches on the 21st of January 2020.