Lecturer shot during Phoenix unrest: 'It was a game to them, they were laughing'
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has heard a TVET college lecturer was in a coma for three weeks after being shot in Phoenix during the civil unrest.
On Wednesday, Ntethelelo Mkhize of Ntuzuma gave evidence on the third day of the hearings into the looting and violence in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng that spanned several days in July.
Mkhize says he and eight friends were driving through the area in a double cab bakkie on the 12th of that month.
He says they came across a large group of men at a makeshift roadblock.
He says the group called them Zuma's people and used the k-word racially to abuse them.
Mkhize says the men started hitting their vehicle and fired shots at it.
He says the situation became more violent when some of his friends got out of the bakkie and tried to reason with the men.
Mkhize says they were shot as they tried to drive off.
"There was another group which was in front of me, that was actually approaching me at the time I was running away from the previous group.
"Then this guy who had shot at Mr Nsele then shot at me to from the window side. I tried to run, after I had fallen I got up the other one then shot me. That would be the third bullet.
"While I was lying on the ground, then came an Indian gentleman who had taken my cellphone and removed my jacket and also took my flip flops. The very same guy then shot at me again. I was somewhat a game to them became they were laughing."
He says he later woke up in a clinic, not knowing how he got there.
