Johannesburg - The African National Congress Youth League in Soweto’s Mzala branch on Sunday dedicated a march to raise awareness against woman and child abuse to a young woman brutally killed, allegedly by her former boyfriend.
Mary-Lee Mucambe, 21, was stabbed to death in October last year.
“She was stabbed 36 times and raped. The guy then put her in the boot of her car and drove around for three days with her body decaying in the boot,” said Xolani Maquba, one of co-ordinators of the event.
“The ANCYL and ANC in Mzala branch then embarked on a campaign to stand against this barbaric behaviour by launching the 16 days of activism march in her honour…”
Gauteng community safety MEC Sizakele Nkosi-Malobane and Johannesburg mayoral committee member for health and social development Nonceba Molwele were expected to speak at the campaign in Dobsonville.
A man arrested in connection with Mucambe’s murder is expected to appear in the High Court in Johannesburg on February 22. He was arrested in Witbank.
The man allegedly invited her for lunch, and then took her cellphone and stabbed her several times before tying her up and bundling her in the boot of her car.
The 16 days of activism for no violence against women and children runs annually from November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, to December 10, International Human Rights Day.
The period includes Universal Children’s Day and World Aids Day.
South Africa adopted the campaign in 1998 as one of the intervention strategies to create a society free of violence.
African News Agency