Vinesa Paile hops from her bedroom to the living room. After lowering herself gingerly into a chair, she tells the story behind her bandaged knee.
“I was just standing on the pavement, looking at what was happening,” Paile says.
Paile is one of several Noordgesig, Soweto, residents still wincing a day after violent service delivery protests.
Police fired rubber bullets at the protesters, but official and community accounts of the situation differ widely.
SAPS provincial spokeswoman Captain Katlego Mogale said on Wednesday night that police had fired only after protesters had targeted motorists.
“If there is a service delivery protest and the protesters are throwing stones at motorists, the police will use the necessary force to disperse them.”
But several injured residents, five of whom were interviewed by The Star, say police fired without provocation.
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