Botha had planned his attack in advance, arranging with his post office colleague, Soraya Abdullah for her to leave work earlier.

[16][17][18] He raped her and attempted to strangle her, before ultimately bludgeoning her to death with a two kilogram weight targeting her head and eventually knocking her unconscious.

[32] A large protest occurred at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town on 4 September where South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was present.

[39][40][41] The Uyinene Mrwetyana Scholarship was also founded for female students in the Humanities faculty at the University of Cape Town,[42] and was later first awarded to Luhlanganiso Majebe in July 2021.

[44][45] In September 2019, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex secretly visited the post office where Mrwetyana was murdered, while touring South Africa with her husband, Prince Harry.

[46] In that same month, hundreds of South Africans gathered to protest against gender-based violence in Times Square, New York City after the news of Mrwetyana's death.