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LGBTQIA+ people in SA ‘are beneath siege’
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Seeking safety
Activists at the Durban Lesbian and Gay Community and Health Centre say they have their hands full with the large number of cases of abuse, but many others
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THE legal fraternity in KwaZulu-Natal lost another leading member this week with the death of former acting judge Muzi Wilfred Mkhize. He died in his sleep on Sunday night after suffering a heart attack.
Mkhize (58), a senior counsel at the Durban Bar, acted as a judge in both the Eastern Cape and KZN.
He was a former defence lawyer for President Jacob Zuma and news in January that he was tipped to take over as the next National Director of Public Prosecutions after Vusi Pikoli caused an outcry.
Issues of impropriety were raised, including allegations of alleged Land Bank loan deals.
Members of the legal fraternity were shocked to learn about Mkhize’s death as many had seen him at Judge President Herbert Msimang’s funeral last Saturday.
According to his brother, Chris, Mkhize went to bed on Sunday night and asked to be awoken at five the next morning as he had to travel to Pretoria. When a family member went to wake him up he was dead.
Mkhize, who was born in Nkand
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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