Johannesburg – A picture of a pretty girl flashing an innocent smile is carefully propped up, a burning white candle next to it.

On a mattress, on the floor, sits her grief-stricken grandmother.

Gladys Madonsela is trying to make sense of the rape and murder of Thandeka Madonsela.

She was just 14 years old, a Grade 8 pupil at Rand Girls High in Parktown, Joburg.

She was raped, disembowelled and murdered in the early hours of Saturday morning. Her alleged assailants are two boys, aged 16 and 17.

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