Raped girl escapes but dies after Gqeberha clinic snub

Pupil who collapsed on floor of police station ‘failed by two government institutions’

A 15-year-old girl allegedly held hostage and gang-raped managed to escape, only to be turned away from a Motherwell clinic and told to first go to a police station where she later died.

Zenizole Vena died in the arms of a woman inside the police station’s community service centre...

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