Men sentenced to 18 years for Killing South African lesbian.

Gay rights advocates in South Africa hailed a judge's sentencing of four men to 18 years each in prison for brutally slaying a 19-year-old lesbian.

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Hatred fueled the 2006 stabbing and stoning of Zoliswa Nkonyana, who was targeted because of her segxwal orientation, Magistrate Raadiya Whaten ruled.
Four years' credit was given to Lubabolo Ntlabathi, Sicelo Mase, Luyanda Londzi and Mbulelo Damba, meaning they will spend 14 additional years behind bars.
"The sentence sent a strong message that hate crimes would not be tolerated," national prosecuting attorney spokesman Eric Ntabazalila told the South African Press Association.
Gay rights advocates celebrated Wednesday's ruling.
"It was the first time discrimination based on segxwal orientation was named as an aggravating factor in a South African criminal trial," the Triangle Project gay and lesbian rights group said in a written statement.
Gay marriage is legal in South Africa, which was the first African nation to prohibit discrimination based on segxwal orientation.
Homosegxwality is illegal in most African countries, based on rules left over from the British colonial era, when sodomy laws were introduced.
Despite South Africa's anti-discrimination provisions, attacks based on segxwal orientation persist, rights groups say.
After interviews in six of South Africa's nine provinces last year, New York-based Human Rights Watch concluded that "social attitudes towards homosegxwal, bisegxwal, and transgender people in South Africa have possibly hardened over the last two decades. The abuse they face on an everyday basis may be verbal, physical, or segxwal -- and may even result in murder"
This week officials from another rights group said they hope this week's sentencing will set a precedent across Africa.
"We hope that this message is heard loud and clear across the rest of the continent, where homophobic discrimination is widespread and where homosegxwality is a crime," the non-profit People Against Suffering, Oppression and Poverty said in a statement.

Posted: at 10-02-2012 06:04 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming

They threw away their young lives through bigotry and ignorance. One would think
that being South Africans fully conversant with the era of Aparthied they would
understand what it meant to hate others because of perceived differences.

Posted: at 10-02-2012 06:20 PM (12 years ago) | Newbie

If GOD d creator destroy sodom an gomorah cus of dis, then its evil. Killing was not d solution but being gay is an insult against GOD. U gays will face GOD and explain to him on judgement day. This is really endtime. We shld becareful.

Posted: at 11-02-2012 01:24 AM (12 years ago) | Addicted Hero

phyuk all of you there.

Posted: at 28-04-2012 08:13 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming

 

Posted: at 31-08-2012 01:21 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero

OK

Posted: at 30-01-2013 01:24 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Mad people

Posted: at 21-08-2015 09:16 AM (8 years ago) | Hero