CAPE TOWN - Advocacy group Women for Change has condemned the driver who rammed into protesters during Friday’s GBV-Femicide shutdown in Observatory, Cape Town.
The group is calling for the driver to be arrested.
Police have launched an investigation and charged the driver, who remains at large, with reckless and negligent driving.
Two people, including a 70-year-old woman, were injured.
Mfuneko Mali says he’s still shaken after the incident that left his left wrist broken.
He joined people nationwide in the Women4Change protest and the 15-minute silent lie-in.
The Observatory gathering honoured 40-year-old Davidene Witbooi, who was shot and killed on Women’s Day in Manenberg.
The other victim is 70-year-old Maureen Witten.
Witten’s daughter says the elderly woman escaped with minor injuries after being rushed to Rondebosch Medical Centre.
Activists say they’re appalled by the incident.
"I think it demonstrates why talking about gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa is important, because there are people who deliberately hurt others for no reason," said Merlize Jogiat from Women For Change.
"He chose the wrong day, because this is the day we were standing there in memory of the women who lost their lives, and he attempted this.”
Police are yet to make an arrest.
- eNCA’s Nobesuthu Hejana reports