The Triangle Project said on Friday they were outraged by recent killings of two lesbian women in Soweto.
”We demand justice and immediate police action to incarcerate the monsters who killed these women,” said Vista Kalipa, spokesperson for Triangle Project — a Cape Town-based gay and lesbian advocacy organisation.
The bodies of Sizakele Sigasa, a gay and lesbian rights activist, and Salome Masooa, her friend, were found by a jogger in a field near Meadowlands, west of Johannesburg, on Sunday.
The women were last seen at a celebration in the area.
”This does not look like a random killing or hijacking. ”[The] time has come for the South African justice system to tighten its shackles and put an end to these senseless killings,” said Kalipa.
In February 2006, a similar murder happened in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, where a young lesbian, Zoliswa Nkonyanawas, found dead after having been clubbed and beaten by a mob of young men, he said.
”Because of her sexual orientation, she was pelted with bricks and beaten with a golf club just a short distance away from her home.”
Kalipa said that as members of the gay and lesbian community, they were mortified by the growing number of hate crimes in South Africa.
”Police intervention and community cooperation is required to help lessen these violent crimes.” — Sapa