Bredasdorp residents hold protest march
2013-02-12 11:03
Cape Town - A group of people marched through the Western
Cape town of Bredasdorp on Tuesday morning to express their outrage at the rape
and murder of teenager Anene Booysen.
They started where Booysen's body was found and ended in
front of the Bredasdorp Magistrate's Court, where two of her alleged killers appeared.
Joining the march were residents and singing members of the
provincial African National Congress Youth League and the Democratic Alliance,
who wore their party shirts and held a large banner.
A group of about 100 men, women and children picketed
outside the court, holding signs with slogans like "Your child is my
child", "Dubbele lewenslange straf" (Double life sentences) and
"Sluit hulle toe, gooi weg die sleutels" (Lock them up, throw away
the keys).
Booysen, 17 was gang-raped and disembowelled after visiting
a club on Friday, 1 February. She was found at the Asla Magwebu construction
site, where she worked, not far from her RDP home, the next morning. She died
in hospital that night.
Speaker of the Cape Agulhas local municipality, Eve
Marthinus, handed a memorandum of demands from the "torn community"
to the court's manager, to give to the "provincial minister of justice and
police".
In the memorandum they call for stricter criminal sentences,
an end to all types of violence and for the innocent to be protected from
sexual predators, drug dealers, and irresponsible alcohol traders.
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- SAPA
