News24 | Youngster stuck in a wheelchair, crippled by a ‘politician's bullet’

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Misery Alex Mofokeng (20), who is paralysed from the waist down after he was struck by a bullet allegedly fired by a local politician in 2016, with his parents George Masimula and Elizabeth Mofokeng.

Misery Alex Mofokeng (20), who is paralysed from the waist down after he was struck by a bullet allegedly fired by a local politician in 2016, with his parents George Masimula and Elizabeth Mofokeng.

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Today, he is stuck in a wheelchair and leads a miserable life, with no hope for the future. He torturingly wheels himself for almost 3km to school, on the streets of the impoverished Delmas township in Mpumalanga.

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