Three people have each lost an eye after they were shot by police during the Hout Bay riots last week.
The neighbourhood exploded after City officials started evicting squatters from the slopes of the Sentinel and Hangberg on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The area may have calmed down, but Delon Egypt, 22, still has a rubber bullet lodged in his head which doctors are hesitant to remove.
“I went to see what the commotion was about near Sentinel Primary, and while standing and watching, cops started shooting,” he says.
“There was no warning, they just shot at me and now I have a bullet in my head and doctors can’t remove it.
“They were there to demolish shacks, but they started shooting at innocent people.”
Auriol Cloete, 35, is also furious at cops after what happened to her.
“I have lost my eye because of the police. I will have a fake eye,” she says angrily.
Ikram Halim, 40, was helping children get out of the firing line when he was shot in the eye.
“The children didn’t know what to do at the time and I was trying to get them out of the way when the police started shooting,” says the fisherman.
“When I turned around, I saw a bullet coming straight to my eye, the rubber bullet fell out minutes later.”
Morris Adams, 29, is partially blind after being shot while cleaning his yard.
“They [cops] just came to my yard and shot at me and didn’t wait to see if I was injured or not,” he says.
Auriol says Helen Zille should remember the idiom, “An eye for an eye,” when thinking about Hout Bay.
“If I had seen her on that day I would have taken her eyes out,” says a boiling-mad Auriol. - Daily Voice