Daveyton man queer-bashed for using women’s bathroom
A young LGBTQ man says he was beaten unconscious after using the women’s bathroom at his longtime local tavern in Daveyton, on Johannesburg’s East Rand.
B*tch Makoya: Humanising queer life and death
A powerful new short documentary, B*tch Makoya, about the murder of Kagiso Maema is helping to bring the consequences of anti-queer hate crimes to life.
Man who killed lesbian woman gets effective 8 years in jail
Lives are cheap in South Africa, it seems, after the man found guilty of stabbing lesbian Noxolo Mabona Klaas (also known as Noxie) to death was sentenced to an effective eight years in jail.
Activists welcome lesbian teen rape suspect dropping bail bid
A 32-year-old man accused of raping and brutally assaulting a Potchefstroom teenage lesbian has abandoned his bail application.
Potchefstroom lesbian teen rape case postponed
The case of a man accused of raping and seriously assaulting a teenage lesbian woman in Potchefstroom has been postponed to 17 July. Mbali*, who was a minor when she was raped, was discovered by her school’s patrolling officer the morning after the incident, lying behind a soccer field between Promosa and Mohadin, back in […]