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• GAY MAN FOUND AD ON HIS 22ND BIRTHDAY IS SOUTH AI’S 4TH LGBTQ PERSON KILLED A MONTH; SPECT, 17, ARRTED
• GAY MAN FOUND MURRED ON HIS 22ND BIRTHDAY. HE’S THE FOURTH LS THAN A MONTH
• SOUTH AI: TEENS WATCH AS GAY MAN IS BEATEN, MURRED AND SET ON FIRE
• GAY MAN STABBED TO ATH BEE HE WANTED TO E THE MEN’S BATHROOM. HE WAS JT 24
• GAY MAN KILLED ON BIRTHDAY ALLEGED NYANGA HATE CRIME
• SHOCKG MURR OF BELOVED GAY MAN PROMPTS OUTPOURG OF GRIEF AND LLS FOR CHANGE SOUTH AI
• GAY MAN MURRED SOUTH AI
• BTAL MURR OF DURBAN GAY MAN LEAV LGBTQ+ MUNY LIVG FEAR
• GRIEF, SHOCK AND FEAR AFTER GAY DURBAN MAN BTALLY MURRED
• THAPELO MAKUTLE, GAY MAN KILLED SOUTH AI, 'SEVERELY MUTILATED'

GAY MAN FOUND AD ON HIS 22ND BIRTHDAY IS SOUTH AI’S 4TH LGBTQ PERSON KILLED A MONTH; SPECT, 17, ARRTED

A gay man South Ai was found ad on Sunday what’s believed to be the fourth LGBTQ killg ls than a month, acrdg to lol media Gay and Lbian Alliance of South Ai said a statement that Lonwabo Jack was on his way home om celebratg his 22nd birthday when he was raped and murred his Wtern Cape victim was “found wh a stab wound to the cht, ” acrdg to police. News about the btal killg jt weeks after at least three other openly gay men were tragic killed South Ai. Earlier this month, the body of Andile “Lulu” Ntuthela, a 40-year-old gay man, was disvered a shallow grave near his alleged killer’s ont door Eastern Cape, a provce the untry’s southeast before that, the body of Sphamandla Khoza, 34, was found a dch near his home.

Police South Ai are vtigatg the killg of a young gay man – Lonwabo Jack – who’s believed to be the untry’s fourth LGBT+ murr victim ls than a month. Havg a gay child has tght a valuable lson. Ls than a week ago South Ain media learned of the ath of Nathaniel Mbele, a gay man who was stabbed the cht near the cy of Vanrbijlpark.

Shortly before this police found the mutilated remas of Andile “Lulu” Ntuthela, a gay man who was butchered and burned.

GAY MAN FOUND MURRED ON HIS 22ND BIRTHDAY. HE’S THE FOURTH LS THAN A MONTH

He was tragilly preced by Sphamandla Khoza, 34, a gay man who was stabbed, beaten and had his throat sl Durban.

“Homophobia is eply rooted toxic masculy and misogyny that exists our hom, muni, and society and we ought to work together to root out this toxic behavur so that the rights and digny of LGBTIQ+ and all opprsed persons n be protected. A 21-year old South Ain gay man was tied up, beaten, set on fire and killed, acrdg to reports. Dpe a plex gay rights rerd, South Ai beme the first and so far only untry Ai to legalise marriage rights for same-sex upl 2006.

SOUTH AI: TEENS WATCH AS GAY MAN IS BEATEN, MURRED AND SET ON FIRE

South Ai ntu to report high levels of homophobic vlence (Photo cred should read PHILL MAGAKOE/AFP via Getty Imag). The circumstanc surroundg the cint are still unr vtigatn, but prelimary rmatn suggts that a prev homophobic ment might be the motive for the attack. South Ain police have arrted three men who allegedly murred a gay man more than a year ago.

GAY MAN STABBED TO ATH BEE HE WANTED TO E THE MEN’S BATHROOM. HE WAS JT 24

The tr may also be nnected to a gang of robbers who murred seven other gay men, South Ai's Inpennt Onle news se reports. Barney Van Heern, 39, was one of the eight gay men who were killed South Ai between April 2010 and Febary of this year.

Police are warng lol gay men to be reful. Tae says gay men should be pecially ut of any partners they do not know and to make sure to tell iends or fay where they are if they plan to meet a stranger.

While gay rights groups claimed that police were not vtigatg the crim as thoroughly as they should, Tae disagreed and said tectiv "re eply about pursg jtice each of the s. Lonwabo Jack, a 22-year-old gay man, was murred Cape Town, South Ai on Sunday, acrdg to police.

GAY MAN KILLED ON BIRTHDAY ALLEGED NYANGA HATE CRIME

Protters mand that the untry’s ernment take actn to addrs the surge of anti-LGBTQ+ vlence and to specifilly ll for jtice the se of Andile “Lulu” Ntuthela, a 40-year-old gay man who was recently murred the Eastern Cape.

Cape Town – Yet another gay man has been murred after beg allegedly raped a spected hate crime Nyanga. Beg Ain means that I n’t be who I am if my muny is not fully acceptg of the gay, sex worker, or dg addict that I am. Homophobia is eply rooted toxic masculy and misogyny that exists our hom, muni, and society and we ought to work together to root out this toxic behavur so that the rights and digny of LGBTIQ+ and all opprsed persons n be protected.

SHOCKG MURR OF BELOVED GAY MAN PROMPTS OUTPOURG OF GRIEF AND LLS FOR CHANGE SOUTH AI

A beloved gay man has been stabbed to ath South Ai, promptg an outpourg of grief om the LGBT+ muny and sperate lls for hate crime laws to fally be passed. The beloved gay man’s ath has also reigned sperate lls for hate crime legislatn South Ai, amid a horrifyg spate of LGBT+ murrs. Earlier this month, 40-year-old gay man Andile “Lulu” Ntuthela was found ad a shallow grave, jt days after another gay man was stabbed to ath and dumped a dch near a school.

Tw // homophobia, murr. A young homosexual man has been killed and his body mutilated South Ai, acrdg to LEGBO, a lol gay rights group.

GAY MAN MURRED SOUTH AI

Phumi Mtetwa, an activist wh Fahamu, a pan-Ain work for social jtice, told Al Jazeera that if was tablished to have been a hate crime targettg the gay muny,  would be a further dictment on “the relig right, tradnal lears and lol policians who [ntue to] perpetuate the ia that beg gay is not Ain”. Pretoria News reported that was believed that Makutle was killed over an argument as to whether he was transexual or gay and that the gay muny Kuman were now livg fear. Makutle was a lear the lol gay muny.

BTAL MURR OF DURBAN GAY MAN LEAV LGBTQ+ MUNY LIVG FEAR

Among the activi he anised was the the Miss Gay Kuman pageant. “It was such a barbaric act, ” said Baloyi, whose ernment agency promot the rights of gays, lbians and other South Ains.

South Ai’s nstutn bans discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn, but gay people still face discrimatn and vlence. The lol gay rights group is anisg a prott before the service. JOHANNESBURG - As South Ai mov om Human Rights Month to celebrate Freedom Day April, the untry’s LGBTQIA+ muny says ntu to live fear followg the ath of a Durban gay man who was btally murred earlier this week.

GRIEF, SHOCK AND FEAR AFTER GAY DURBAN MAN BTALLY MURRED

Siyaphela#JticeForSpha Homocentric (@uBabaKaEnzo) April 2, 2021.

We jt want tolerance, civily and rpect for we are humans too#JticeForSpha #Jticeforsphamandlakhoza A Zulu Homosexual (@Sat_Stabane) April 1, 2021.

Someone felt their homophobia so tensely that they extguished a life and didnt look back.

THAPELO MAKUTLE, GAY MAN KILLED SOUTH AI, 'SEVERELY MUTILATED'

A night vigil and march was held to ensure jtice for Khoza and the protectn of the LGBTQI+ has been shock, outrage and fear over the safety of LGBTQI+ people followg the btal murr of KwaZulu-Natal man Sphamandla Khoza, who had apparently been bullied over beg gay days before he was killed. "He was openly gay. Everybody knew he was gay.

” “Lbians an often homophobic and patriarchal society, they face a further danger — the ia that they n be changed and ma to women through what is known as rrective rape, ” Boyce said a BBC reported 2011 that 31 lbians had been subjected to sexual asslt to “change” their sexual orientatns the past 10 Mvandaba, another Black lbian, was killed her own home jt days prr to Bhengu’s ath. ”Acrdg to Mvandaba’s Facebook, she was a volunteer at Phakama Youth and Communy Health Project, a fah-based advocy anizatn that sought to provi AIDS tn and HIV ttg to muny one day after Mvandaba was murred, a 28-year-old gay man, Masixole Level, was found ad the cy of Gqebera the Eastern Cape, acrdg to Mamba Onle.

“[H]e red so much for his iends, ” she gay men have been murred South Ai ls than a month.