![]() The 28-year-old had been eight months pregnant when she was shot in the chest and then hanged. They recognised her as their ‘Tshego’, as she was affectionately known. On June 8, the devastated family of Tshegofatso, who had been searching for their daughter for days, saw the gut-wrenching viral video of a woman hanging from a withered grey tree. “The footage was posted to try and find her family,” said one witness, Tshepo Bodibe, who had been summoned to the crime scene by a friend. So the group of men took pictures and videos of the gruesome scene and started circulating them on social media. They made multiple phone calls to other community members but their efforts failed to identify her. It would be the first of many gatherings in her name.įive days earlier, on June 5, 2020, a group of residents from Durban Deep in Roodepoort, a residential area seven kilometres (four miles) from Meadowlands, stumbled upon a spine-chilling sight: the lifeless body of a heavily pregnant woman, blood dripping from her torso to her toes, hanging from a tree in broad daylight. ![]() “Senzeni na, senzeni na (what have we done?),” they sang, paying their final respects to a life lost too soon. ![]() Johannesburg, South Africa – As the winter sun dipped below the horizon on a cold Wednesday evening last June, hundreds of women, men and children gathered sombrely on the streets of Meadowlands in Soweto.ĭressed in black, and clutching pink balloons and flickering candles, the crowd – some hand-in-hand, many with tears in their eyes – made their way to the home of Tshegofatso Pule, the words of an old anti-apartheid struggle song echoing in the air around them. ![]()
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