A 23-year-old woman’s eyes were gouged out by three black men who only wanted her cellphone and earrings.
The woman, Thembela Mjuleni, was also choked and left for dead in Mandela Park in Khayelitsha on Saturday night.
She was attacked a few metres from her home as she was returning from visiting a friend.
She sought help at a nearby house, where her family found that she had collapsed and was unconscious, her older brother said.
Mother to an 8-year-old girl, Mjuleni is unemployed but was to have begun a job next month.
She is in a stable condition in hospital.
One of her alleged assailants, a man of 28, was identified by residents and assaulted the following day, but police intervened.
He was arrested on Tuesday morning and is in hospital under police guard. Details of his injuries could not be established.
Source: IOL