A lesbian who was raped and murdered in a South African township last week was clearly attacked because of her sexuality, gay campaigners say, reports the UK’s Pink News.
Noxolo Nogwaza, 24, was found dead in an alley in Kwa-Thema township, South Africa, on Easter Sunday morning. She was a prominent local gay rights activist and a member of the Ekurhuleni Pride Organising Committee, the key LGBT organisation in Kwa-Thema.
Reports said she had been stoned and stabbed with broken glass and there was evidence she had been raped.
Ms Nogwaza was killed in the same town as Eudy Simelane, a lesbian footballer who was raped and murdered in 2008. Her death sparked international concern about so-called ‘corrective rapes’ of lesbians in South Africa.
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