‘When I was hit, I couldn’t run so I played dead’ — mass shooting survivor

Thobile Mhlekwa, 57, does not know how he survived the mass killing at Godini village, near Tina Falls outside Qumbu in the Eastern Cape, on Sunday night

09 October 2024 - 13:25 By Lulamile Feni

“They murdered my comrades, they left us injured and traumatised. There was no mercy.”..

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