FREE TO READ: Gender activist and law lecturer shot dead near Joburg Zoo

15 October 2019 - 06:05 By Katharine Child
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Arvitha Doodnath was killed on Jan Smuts Avenue in Parkview, near the Johannesburg Zoo, on Saturday night in a suspected hijacking.
Arvitha Doodnath was killed on Jan Smuts Avenue in Parkview, near the Johannesburg Zoo, on Saturday night in a suspected hijacking.
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Law lecturer and Helen Suzman Foundation researcher Arvitha  Doodnath, who led a campaign against gender violence at the Vaal University of Technology, was shot dead in Johannesburg at the weekend.

The foundation and her friends are reeling at the loss of a bright young woman who had worked on the National Health Insurance (NHI) and started a campaign after the killing of UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana.

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