Second American Is Stabbed in S. Africa : Violence: Assault in Cape Town comes six weeks after slaying of Orange County woman.

A second American exchange student was stabbed and badly wounded here Friday night, six weeks after Amy Biehl, a Fulbright scholar from Orange County, was stabbed to death in a brutal racial attack.

Police and U.S. Embassy officials said they do not believe that the assault on Daniela Malin, 23, was linked to the arrival here Saturday of Biehl’s family for a weeklong visit at the invitation of Cape Town Mayor Clive Keegan.

Malin, a volunteer teacher on a graduate exchange program from Brown University in Rhode Island, was in stable condition Saturday at Groote Schuur Hospital with seven stab wounds in the neck, chest and ribs, police spokeswoman Sgt. Virna Louw said.

Malin was attacked about 7 p.m. by two men inside a school building where she teaches math to eighth-grade students, according to Geoff Jacobs, headmaster of the Zonnebloem Nest School, an integrated school for about 90 students in a sprawling black township on the outskirts of Cape Town.

Jacobs said Malin, who is white, was awaiting a call at a public phone booth from her parents in Brattleboro, Vt., when she was chased down a corridor and stabbed. She staggered to another building, where a school official rushed her to the hospital. No arrests were made.

“She’s going to pull through,” Jacobs said. “She’s very fortunate. It could have been much worse.”

Jacobs said the private school opened last year and aims to train students of all races “for leadership positions in the post-apartheid South Africa.” He said Malin arrived in January and was due to return home in December.

Malin’s backpack, containing books and letters, was found Saturday in a school trash can. “Robbery appears the motive,” Louw said.

A U.S. Embassy consular official, Mark Hill, said the attack appeared to be “simple, senseless violence” rather than a campaign to target Americans.

Hill said there is no reason to believe the attack was linked to the visit of Linda and Peter Biehl, the parents of the 26-year-old Newport Beach woman who was murdered in Guguletu, a black township outside Cape Town, on Aug. 25. The Biehls were accompanied by their two daughters and son, as well as Scott Meinert, Amy Biehl’s boyfriend. They planned a weeklong stay. Their tentative schedule today includes a church service in Guguletu, a visit to the site where their daughter was killed and a press conference.

“They want to retrace her steps and see what Amy did while she was here,” said Kyra Eberle, an embassy spokeswoman.

Amy Biehl, who was researching women’s rights in an emerging democracy, was dragged from her car and stabbed and beaten to death by an angry mob of black youths. She had worked with the African National Congress, the black nationalist organization that is helping to lead the country’s move toward multiracial elections.

Biehl’s death sparked a rare public soul-searching here, partly because whites have been largely immune to the anger and violence in the townships.

About 10,000 Americans, most of them white, live in South Africa, teaching in schools and universities, running businesses and working in social service agencies and civil rights and community groups.

A court hearing Friday for six people, including a 15-year-old, charged with Biehl’s murder was disrupted by about 50 protesters who shouted anti-white slogans and threatened journalists, according to local press reports.

The protesters reportedly chanted, “Every settler deserves a bullet,” “One magistrate, one bullet,” and “Kill a cop a day.” They then danced in the street, shouting: “War! War! War!”