The partially clothed body of Eudy Simelane, former star of South Africa's acclaimed Banyana Banyana national female football squad, was found in a creek in a park in Kwa Thema, on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Simelane had been gang-raped and brutally beaten before being stabbed 25 times in the face, chest and legs. As well as being one of South Africa's best-known female footballers, Simelane was a voracious equality rights campaigner and one of the first women to live openly as a lesbian in Kwa Thema.
Eudy Simelane (Right)
Her brutal murder took place last April, and since then a tide of violence against lesbians in South Africa has continued to rise. Human rights campaigners say it is characterised by what they call "corrective rape" committed by men behind the guise of trying to "cure" lesbians of their sexual orientation.
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ah, yes... nothing like one or twenty five stabs to the face to get you to think men are worthy of love.
ReplyDeleteHail to the " brave " fellows that did this to a defenceless woman. But then there is no respect for woman anyway. After all it is the woman that is the stronger one & a new threat to man.
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