When she was just 13 years old, Zukiswa Qezo was shot five times.
‘They left me for dead,’ Zukiswa, now 51, tells Metro.co.uk.
They, she says, were soldiers and police. Their battlefield was a 1985 classroom and their enemy were unarmed and helpless children.
The reason for the violent clash, was because Zukiswa, then a teen, and her fellow students had been protesting about the standard of education in her tiny school in Indwe, South Africa, which had been segregated specifically for Black Africans during apartheid.
‘They had sjamboks (a heavy leather whip), they shot us with bullets – not rubber bullets,’ she remembers.
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