‘They called us monkeys’: lecturer who was shot in Phoenix unrest
Durban man who was attacked by an armed group manning a road block relives his trauma during SAHRC hearings
17 November 2021 - 20:40
A Durban TVET college lecturer, who was shot four times and was in a coma for two weeks after a brutal attack at the hands of Phoenix residents, has told a human rights probe into the July unrest how the police assumed he had died in the attack that claimed the lives of three of his friends...
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