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FROM ONE MOM TO ANOTHER

IF ANYONE knows what the family of Tshegofatso Pule are going through, it’s the mother of 19-year-old Uyinene Mrwetyana, the University of Cape Town student murdered by a post office worker in Cape Town last year.

Uyinene’s death sparked nationwide protests as people marched to demand an end to gender-based violence.

But, as eight-months-pregnant Tshegofatso’s horror killing has proved, we have a long way to go.

Nomangwane Mrwetyana, Uyinene’s mother, has written a letter to Tshegofatso’s aunt, Pricilla Giwu, who took Tshego in and raised her when her mother died 11

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