WHEN little Anelisa Mkhondo didn’t return home, her grandparents thought they would see her the next day.

But there was no sign of the five-year-old girl the next day, Sunday 8 September.

A search began and the child was found murdered a day later. She had been dumped in a dustbin and used condoms were found around her.

She had gashes on her head and neck as if she had been chopped with an axe. She wasn’t wearing her shoes.

Neighbours found the little body about 50m from her home in Diepsloot, north of Joburg.

Last Thursday residents, friends and family flocked to a hall in Afrika Tikkun Akani Centre for Anelisa’s memorial service.

Her grieving gogo, Bongiwe Ncubuse, pleaded with people to help the police to catch the brutal killers of her innocent granddaughter.

Church leaders, community safety officials, police, pupils and representatives of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund were among the mourners.

Fund representative Fikile Ngcobo asked people to report crime.

Nehwoh Belinda, the manager of a gender-based anti-violence and child abuse programme at Afrika Tikkun, asked Diepsloot residents to fight crime and violence, especially against women and children.

James Khumalo of a community safety group asked churches to help fight immorality in the township.For more http://www.dailysun.mobi