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Special Focus
On April 28, 2008, Eudy Simelane, 31 years old, was gang-raped and brutally murdered in her home township, Kwa-Thema, in the East Rand near Johannesburg. The apparent motivation for her killing was that she was a lesbian who fought back "like a man."
Defenders
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