As the country was celebrating Freedom Day on Thursday, dozens of community members, gender-based violence activists, victims and survivors held a memorial service for the late Mama Lindiwe Phindile Herthy Ngcobo
As the country was celebrating Freedom Day on Thursday, dozens of community members, gender-based violence activists, victims and survivors held a memorial service for the late Mama Lindiwe Phindile Herthy Ngcobo.
Ngcobo boldly lifted her skirt on stage to show the scars of what a tragic gang rape had left her after years of trying to recover."Mama Afrika" Ngcobo, as she was popularly known, died last Friday at Tembisa Hospital after almost 20 years of battling health complications due to abdominal operations performed on her after a plastic bag was inserted in her genitals by her perpetrators during the incident.
Before that, she had been living on medical attention following the tragic incident that left her permanently sickly. Mathabela said the organisation was pained by her death, however, they were grateful to have met a woman of her calibre.Ngcobo was gang raped in front of her friend by eight men when she was 27 at a home she rented in Tembisa.
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