Hate and homicide: The murder of Noxolo Nogwaza

Today I’m talking about hate crimes and homophobia in South Africa. For this episode, we are traveling to KwaThema, a township in Gauteng. There is electricity in kwathema, but there are also these huge towering spotlight-style street lights. They’re lifted that high to try provide a measure of light and security, but there are always bits the light doesn’t reach. And it was in a patch of deep shadow, in an alley between buildings that a woman called Noxolo Nogwaza was killed in April 2011. Noxolo – which means peace in Zulu - was just 24. She was a mum to two small kids, and she lived with her gran Vuyelwa. She loved soccer, and kwaito music. And, she just so happened to be gay – and it was this fact that made her the target of violent homophobes. 

Music by Matt Riggen: 

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=APy4JmdZRj8&list=RDAMVMAPy4JmdZRj8

https://www.amazon.com/An-Afterlife-for-Noxolo-Nogwaza/dp/B075BHNLDM

https://open.spotify.com/album/6szYBqJ2QLPyZilbB57Z3S?highlight=spotify:track:3zwt18c7a6EiKhc62so6nj

Sian Green Psychology: https://sgpsychology.co.za/

SOURCES

·      http://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/07/26/opinion/26corrective-rape.html

·      https://inkanyiso.org/2013/05/06/2013-may-6-archiving-noxolo-nogwazas-funeral/

·      https://kemptonexpress.co.za/270983/ekurhuleni-pride-to-be-hosted-in-tembisa/

·      https://open.spotify.com/show/3FvJkU9NUNNKGRoTUgNDwr

·      https://outrightinternational.org/content/call-action-against-brutal-rape-and-murder-south-african-lesbian-noxolo-nogwaza

·      https://wazimap.co.za/profiles/ward-79700074-ekurhuleni-ward-74-79700074/

·      https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2013/04/two-years-on-no-justice-for-hate-crime-in-south-africa/

·      https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2012/10/blog-south-africas-townships-still-not-safe-gay-lesbian-and-transgender-people/

·      https://www.hrw.org/node/242800/printable/print

·      https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/no-progress-in-corrective-rape-probe-1284429

·      https://www.latimes.com/world/la-xpm-2011-may-27-la-fg-south-africa-gay-killings-20110528-story.html

·      https://www.pride.com/soapbox/south-african-lesbian-activist-murdered

·      https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311717843_What_is_wrong_with_'Corrective_Rape'

·      https://www.thedailyvox.co.za/four-years-on-still-no-justice-for-noxolo/

·      https://www.voanews.com/africa/south-africa-establishes-team-respond-homophobic-crimes

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