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%%title%% “Indoda Ayikhali” is Killing Us: Why Black South African Men Need to Weep and Heal | SA News

I’ve been shot before. Twice. Once through the thigh. Once through the left testicle. A hijacking in Joburg. They dragged me from my car and beat me senseless – kicks, fists, the butt of a gun.

“Ningangi bulali, bafwethu — don’t kill me, brothers,” I cried out.

The ringleader spat back: “Who are you calling bafwethu? Do we look like your BEE comrades?”

Then he smashed my skull.

When the gun went off, I felt metal tear through muscle and blood spill like hot ink. But what nearly killed me wasn’t the bullet. It was the rage in their eyes. Rage that wasn’t about me – but had history.

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