Tracking down the teenager shot in the mouth by police
Rubber bullets broke his ribs and smashed his tongue. I wanted to ask Ona Dubula how he’d crossed the Hout Bay valley from Imizamo Yethu and wound up on the frontlines of a fishing rights demonstration near Hangberg. But the fourteen-year-old had gauze stuffed in his mouth after being shot at close range by rubber bullets‚ and couldn’t speak. I found him in the trauma ward of Groote Schuur hospital […]