LISTEN | Josina Machel keeping up fight against her abuser for GBV 'victims' sake'

Samora and Graça's daughter says lover's punch cost her an eye

12 July 2020 - 00:00 By NICKI GÜLES

When her boyfriend took her to hospital after allegedly punching her so hard in the face that he destroyed an eye, Josina Machel summoned the courage to tell the doctors that he did it - while he tried to convince them that she injured herself in a fall...

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