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LGBTQIA+ people in SA ‘are under siege’
Khoza’s killing was a devastating blow to his family, especially his partially blind grandmother, who depended on him for cooking and taking care of her with the money he earned. Ndumiso Ngidi, Khoza’s cousin, said his killers had the audacity to put his shoes on the gate of his family home.
“My cousin was killed by people he knew, people he grew up with. If it wasn’t for the blood trails leading to his body and curious people who followed these trails, we wouldn’t have found his body.”
Murderous hate
A few weeks before Khoza’s murder, another gruesome homophobic hate crime took place in Edendale township, outside Pietermaritzburg. Nonhlanhla Kunene, 37, was raped and stabbed to death on March 5. The police found the lesbian lying flat on her face and naked from the waist down near the Edendale Primary School.
The Pietermaritzburg-based non-profit organisation Gay & Lesbian Network said the shocking m