“They spent some time at a pub in Long Street and then they went to visit Anela’s friend and they left him at around 5pm. She reportedly left the cousin around 9pm and told her she was going back to her friend.”

“She got into a cab and told the driver where she was going. The cousin remembered the address but she said she didn’t remember the description of the vehicle or the driver.”

Madikazi said she implored the cousin to report her disappearance after 24 hours passed and Anela remained missing.

“Instead, she posted about Anela’s disappearance on social media and when confronted, she started crying.”

“We then went to the mortuaries and we eventually found her.”

The family believes she had jumped from a vehicle to escape someone. “My initial thought is that the driver tried to do something and she decided to jump off into the quarry,” her mother said.

According to Marc Truss, head of the Cape Town Central Community Policing Forum (CPF), the woman seems to have been attacked.

According to Truss, “We think that the woman died by trauma to the head and probably gender-based violence.” “Sadly, she passed away from the abuse-related injuries she sustained.”