How can a watertight case like this be dismissed? asks Ayanda Simelane's mom Two years after 19-year-old Ayanda Simelane was hacked to death allegedly by her boyfriend, her family were denied closure last week when the long-awaited case was withdrawn.
Johannesburg - Two years after 19-year-old Ayanda Simelane was hacked to death allegedly by her boyfriend, her family were denied closure last week when the long-awaited case was withdrawn at the Springs Magistrate's Court.
Although this is not new to the country, GBVF in South Africa has been ranked five times higher than the global average, according to the Crime Against Women in South Africa Report 2018 by Statistics SA. Simelane’s mother Selina Simelane said they have been let down by the system because all they want is justice for her. She said, according to witnesses, Simelane was last seen with her then boyfriend when they “went to the bathroom”, with the man allegedly dragging her out of a pub.
“On the same day around 8pm, she called me from phone to tell me she loved me. I found it so strange, but now looking back it was her way of saying goodbye,” she reminisced. Weeks before the killing, Simelane applied for a protection order against her boyfriend, only for his sister to persuade her to drop it, “because already had a lot of pending cases against him and this one would jeopardise his job.
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