Rest In Peace Beautiful, gorgeous Uyinene.... Lala ngoxolo Mafu, Langa, Khuboni, Mambele.... 🌸 yours is a sad reality we wake up too & sleep knowing that It could be me #AmINext 💔💔💔😭😭😭 #RIPUyineneMrwetyana pic.twitter.com/0btsctRn8F — Asiphe Mdingi (@asiphe_mdingi) September 3, 2019

The Clareinch post office in Cape Town was one of the last places Mrwetyana was seen alive on August 24, reports Times Live.

According to the South African news outlet, the young woman went to pick up a package shortly after 2pm and the post office worker told her she’d have to come back later that day due to a power outage.

When she returned she was alone with the worker, who allegedly locked her in, raped her and, after putting up a fight, she was knocked unconscious and “bludgeoned with a scale” to death.

The accused, whose name has not been released, confessed to the crime and led investigators to a body, which was discovered in Khayelitsha on Saturday (August 31). The identity of the body has yet to be released, pending DNA test results.

Blood was found inside the post office and the man’s car.

While the court appears to have granted the prosecution's request for a window of time to continue the investigation before his next appearance, they denied bail.

After his court appearance Monday, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) in the Western Cape revealed he had previously been convicted of armed robbery, and had a rape case against him withdrawn, reports Dispatch Live.

The EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters), a South African far-left political party, said it will take legal action against the government and the post office over the college student’s death.

The party is suing the management of the post office as well as the minister of communications, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, because they should have “done something to stop the accused,” EFF leader Julius Malema told journalists on Thursday (September 5), reports Times Live.

“Women never get any help from the criminal justice system, it is most useless,” he said. “It is therefore the police and criminal justice system that must take the blame [for] why rape has become reality of our daily lives.”

Also, on Thursday (September 5), protestors took to the streets across the country.

One person marching held up a sign that read, “We live in a society that teaches women to be careful not to get raped INSTEAD of teaching men NOT TO RAPE!”

A woman, who tweeted a photo of the powerful message on the protestor’s sign, wrote, “Immensely humbled to have been a part of this today standing with some incredibly strong women I am proud to call my sisters. Protest Against Violence Towards Women and Children. #EnoughIsEnough #SAShutdown #FightBack #StopKillingOurWomen #StiekUitCyril #AmINext.”