Murder/corrective rape of Ms Gift Makau 18: 30th lesbian murdered over past 15 years in South Africa
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2014-08-18 Mahikeng - The brutal rape and murder of an 18-year-old woman in Ventersdorp, North West, last week appears to have been yet another incident of “corrective rape”.
The young woman, Gift Makau, was found dead in Tshing location on Friday. She had been raped and strangled with wire and a shoelace and a hosepipe had been shoved into her mouth, reported the Times.
A 24-year-old man has been arrested and will appear in the Venterdorp Magistrate’s Court on Monday, police said.
Makau’s cousin said her family, who knew she was a lesbian, was devastated.
The cousin said Makau had never been abused in the community for her sexuality and was well-known in the community for playing soccer.
Meanwhile, Jabu Pereira, director of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex human rights organisation Iranti-org, told News24 there had been a confirmed case of a lesbian in Cape Town being pushed in front of a train by another woman.
It was, however, unclear why she had been pushed, Pereira said.
About 30 lesbians have been attacked and murdered because of their sexuality over the past 15 years, according to reports.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Woman-killed-for-being-a-lesbian-report-20140818
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Murder: corrective rape: Tsing Ventersdorp lesbian girl, 18-yo Gift Makau raped and tortured to death: a 'male', 24, arrested:
"Gift was well known in her community as being a lesbian, and her torture-murder ordeal is therefore suspected to be a case of what is wrongly described as ‘corrective rape'.
A 24-year-old man has been arrested and will appear in the Ventersdorp Magistrate's Court today.
It is outrageous that we still witness such shocking acts in this twenty first century.
Such brutal acts continue and are far too common, a product of male chauvinism and patriarchy which must be fought and eliminated.
Three years ago Noxolo Fiyona Nogwaza, a lesbian and active member of the Ekurhuleni Pride Organisation Committee, was raped and stoned in Kwa-Thema.
A bottle was inserted in her vagina and her face was disfigured. In the same year Banyana Banyana player, Eudy Simelane, was also killed in Kwa-Thema.
Statement issued by Patrick Craven, COSATU national spokesperson, August 19 2014
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