‘I was punched, beaten’

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‘I was punched, beaten’

Niren Tolsi
Mail & Guardian

There was something unfettered about the police rubber bullets fired at the Kennedy Road informal settlement in Durban on Tuesday night.

As I climbed towards the Kennedy Road Community Hall I saw an old woman duck out of her doorway to throw dishwater into the muddy alley outside her shack. “Get back, you maders [short for maderchod, Hindi for motherfucker], get back inside or we’re coming for you,” a policeman shouted.