Lest we forget: Uyinene Mrwetyana's murder remembered a year on

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19-year-old UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana was raped and murdered in August 2019.

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August 24 marks one year since 19-year-old Uyinene Mrwetyana was raped and killed at the Clareinch Post Office before her body was dumped in Khayelitsha.Here is a timeline of the events leading to Mrwetyana's death. On August 8, Mrwetyana made her way to the post office in Claremont to inquire about the status of a package she was expecting. The parcel contained clothing items she had purchased online.

On August 16, the parcel arrived at the post office and rapist and murderer Luyanda Botha registered it on the same day.Upon her arrival, she found Botha alone. He sexually assaulted Mrwetyana before bashing her head in with a scale used to weigh packages.He returned to the post office on August 25, transported the body to a field in Lingelethu-West, Khayelitsha, and dumped it in a shallow hole, before setting it alight.

We follow Uyinene Mrwetyana's final steps on August 24 2019 when she was brutally murdered in a Cape Town post office and then disposed of in a hole next to a railway track.

 

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