Healing, despair: The tales of two rape victims
RAPE in South Africa – this is the tragic tale of two women – one who saw justice dispensed relatively swiftly with her attacker now behind bars, while the other has spent the past decade painstakingly seeking justice through the courts against the inefficiency of the SAPS, which is nowhere near to finalising her case.
Prison warder and marathon runner Ntombisintu Mfunzi was raped and almost bludgeoned to death with a hammer on November 12, 2016, while preparing to take part in a race to raise awareness of diabetes in Tsolo, in the Eastern Cape.
Two years later, on February 18, her attacker was jailed for 22 years.
She told the Wits Justice Project that the closure of her case has helped bring about healing, (Overcome) co-authored by seasoned journalist Matshelane Mamabolo.
