STOP HATE CRIMES!
LULEKI SIZWE WOMYN'S PROJECT
Luleki Sizwe Womyn's Project is a Cape Town, South Africa based, non profit organisation. Me, Ndumie Funda, (founder and director of LS), and my team are fighting against hate crimes, like corrective rape and sexual assault, and helping people in need are our the main requests. We want to change the negative perception about lesbian, bi-sexual and transsexual woman in our society. And we provide shelter and a safe house for victims of hate crimes.
«150 WOMEN
are raped
every day
in South Africa!
«In the last ten years, at least 31 LESBIAN WOMEN
have been MURDERED because of their sexuality
«For every
25 men
accused of rape
in South Africa,
24 WALK FREE!
«More than
10 LESBIANS
A WEEK are raped or gang raped
in Cape Town!
OUR MISSION
STOP CORECTICE RAPE, sexual assault and hate crimes.
PROVIDE a safe house and medical care for victims.
SUPPORT and reach out to lesbians, who have been forced out of their homes due to their sexual orientation and HIV/Aids status.
COMMUNITY Helping the peo-ple in our community who are less fortunate with food, clothes and other necessities.
LEGAL JUSTICE We also works to pursue legal justice for victims.
PLEASE GET INVOLVED & DONATE
PLEASE GET INVOLVED. You can help by providing us with clothes, food, money or working hours. You can also support the Luleki Sizwe womans football or rugby team.
WE NEED YOUR HELP. We are reliant of your generosity.The money you donate will be spent directly for supporting victims with shelter, medical care, clothes, and food. We urgently need money for a safe house.
WE ARE INFINITELY GRATEFUL FOR EVERY DONATION. THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND GOD BLESS YOU.
ARTICLES ON HATE CRIMES IN THE PRESS
AllAfrica: South Africa: Khayelitsha Lesbian Murder Trial Set for January (October 26, 2022)
https://allafrica.com/stories/202210260358.html
MambaOnline: Lesbian woman gang-raped and set alight in suspected hate crime (October 12, 2022)
PinkNews: Lesbian ‘stoned to death’ in South Africa after receiving «rape and death threats» (June 7, 2022)
https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/06/07/lesbian-south-africa-murder-ruth-nickki-chigowe/
Curing «corrective» rape: Conceptualising a dual-pronged approach to sexual violence against Black lesbians in South Africa (January 14, 2021)
Five held after gay teen murdered in alleged hate crime in Khayelitsha (June 13, 2020)
Lesbian raped by her father, uncle and friend to «make her straight»
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/07/31/lesbian-raped-father-uncle-friend-make-straight/
South African lesbian couple raped, kille dand burned (January 24, 2018)
https://taggmagazine.com/van-niekerk-murders/
Lesbian, 23, stabbed to death in Strand shebeen (January 5, 2018)
Cape Town lesbian murdered in New Year’s hate attack (January 3, 2018)
Killed for being gay (May 24, 2017)
Lesbian killed in Driftsands (December 5, 2016)
Born free, killed by hate - the price of being gay in South Africa (April 7, 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine
Sexual Violence and «corrective rape» in South Africa
http://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/sexual-violence-and-corrective-rape-in-south-africa/