Byline: Nonjabuliso Nhlambo
24 March 2025
In celebration of Human Rights Day, the United Domestic Workers of South Africa (UDWOSA) led by Ms Pinky Mashiane embarked on a peaceful protest to demand justice for 65-year-old Ms Tryphinah Mngomezulu at the Secunda Police Station.
Tryphinah Mngomezulu, died at her employer’s residential place in Secunda after allegedly being attacked by six dogs on Saturday, 02 March 2024.
Mngomezulu had reportedly been hired as a domestic worker for more than 14 years when her lifeless body was discovered at her employers yard and later taken to the mortuary without informing her family.
It’s been over a year now since Ms Mngomezulu passed on and the family still needs answers.
Mashiane who is the founder of UDOSWA delivered to the Secunda station commander a memorandum of demands.
Part of the demands were that the police should release the footage of the day of the incident to the Mngomezulu family within four days after delivering the memorandum.
The union further demanded to know the where were Ms Mngomezulu employers on the day of the incident, and the reason she was taken to the mortuary without informing the family because they knew where she stayed.
Furthermore the union also wanted to have an update on the case.
“We are here because we want justice and also to know what is happening with Ms Mngomezulu’s case. The police have promised to come back to us with answers,” Said Pinky Mashiane, the president and founder of united Domestic Workers of South Africa who advocates for the rights and improved working conditions of domestic workers in South Africa.
