South Africa sexual violence protesters target stock exchange

People campaigning over the high levels of violence against women in South Africa have taken their protest to the financial heart of the country.

Hundreds have gathered outside the Johannesburg Stock Exchange to call on the country's big firms to do more to tackle gender inequality.

Protests have been triggered by the rape and murder of 19-year-old Uyinene Mrwetyana in Cape Town last month.

Over 41,000 people were raped in South Africa in the year from April 2018.

That amounts to more than one rape every 15 minutes. Police statistics also show that eight women are murdered every day in the country.

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