Hundreds of mourners gather for the funeral of 17-year-old Anene
Booysen in Bredasdorp, South Africa, on Feb. 9, 2013. (Landov)
Women in the World  South Africa Rallies Against Fatal Gang Rape
The brutal rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl has shaken the
country’s consciousness—and inspired South Africans to share
their own stories of sexual violence. Mourners gather for the
funeral of Anene Booysen, whose brutal rape has sparked national
outrage. (EPA)  Eight days ago, in a crime that shocked South
Africa, 17-year-old Anene Booysen was brutally gang-raped. Her
throat was slit; her fingers and legs shattered. The attackers
had stuck a broken glass bottle inside her body and left her for
dead on a construction site in the small, quiet Western Cape
town of Bredasdorp, about 120 miles from Cape Town. A security
guard found her near lifeless body. She identified and named at
least one of the alleged rapists, but died soon thereafter.
South Africa, a deeply wounded nation that still grapples with
the scars of