She’s a little girl with a sweet smile and, at first glance, she looks no different from any other child. But she is a survivor of a vicious rape and eye-gouging attack near her home in Gingindlovu, in Zululand, and now she has been given new hope.

It was just a few months ago when this eight-year-old’s story shocked SA.

She was raped, bitten and one of her eyes was gouged out by a 15-year-old boy. but on Thursday she appeared at ease at the Durban University of Technology’s dental clinic, where she was fitted with a prosthetic eye.

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