PLASTIC surgeons in South Africa are preparing to reconstruct the face of a nineyear-old Zimbabwean boy mauled by a hyena in an attack last month. Rodwell Khomazana lost his nose, left eye, most of his upper lip, bits of his forehead and other parts of his face when he was attacked during a night-time church service outside Harare on May 2. Doctors in one of the city’s main public hospitals did the best they could to patch him up and stabilize his condition, but lacked the resources to fully repair his ravaged face. Unable to afford specialized surgery only available abroad, his mother contacted medics in neighboring South Africa who agreed to operate on him for free in a private Johannesburg clinic. Rodwell was flown to Johannesburg on Saturday (Sunday in Manila).