South Africa, Jan. 7 -- 2019 was a painful year for South African women. The brutal murders of women like Uyinene Mrwetyana, Meghan Cremer, and Leighandre 'Baby Lee' Jegels left South Africans shocked, sad, and angry.

Hashtags were started, marches were planned, government promised to act - President Cyril Ramaphosa described femicide as a "national crisis".

Several of the cases made international headlines, with the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, visiting the post office where 19-year-old Uyinene was raped and killed in Cape Town, to show her solidarity with women.

" Simi kunye kulesisimo (We stand together in this moment)," the Duchess wrote on a ribbon.

Standing together

After all that has been said and done, we still wake up t...