South African Lesbians Tortured, Murdered

by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff

(Cape Town, South Africa) LGBT civil rights activists in South Africa are calling on the government to do more to end the growing number of attacks on lesbians in the Black townships following the brutal murders on the weekend of two women.

Sizakele Sigasa, 30, an outreach coordinator at the Positive Women's Network and a lesbian and gay rights activist, and her friend Salome Masooa, 23, were tortured and murdered in Soweto.

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