Anene Booysens, a 17-year-old girl from Bredasdorp in the Western Cape, was gang raped and brutally murdered on 8 February. Six days later Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in Pretoria.
The two cases are characterised by police mishandling, an inappropriate response from a government representative, a lack of decisive action to address gender violence from government and insensitive media coverage. Are these the actions of morally upstanding members of South Africa's public institutions?
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