Eudy Simelane’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Association footballer
Was Athlete
Football player
Association football player
Activist
From South Africa
Type Activism
Sports
Gender female
Birth

11 March 1977, Johannesburg

Death

28 April 2008, Johannesburg
(aged 31 years)

Eudy Simelane (11 March 1977 – 28 April 2008) was a South African footballer who played for the South Africa women’s national football team and an LGBT-rights activist. She was raped and murdered in her hometown of KwaThema, Springs, Gauteng.

Football

Simelane played as a midfielder for Springs Home Sweepers F.C. and the South Africa women’s national football team. She also coached four teams and was studying to be a referee.

Death

Simelane’s partially clothed body was found in a creek in KwaThema. She had been abducted, gang raped, beaten, and stabbed 25 times in the face, chest, and legs. She had been one of the first women to live openly as a lesbian in KwaThema. A report by the international NGO ActionAid, backed by the South African Human Rights Commission, suggested that her murder was a hate crime committed against her because of her sexual orientation.

According to local gay-rights organization Triangle, the practice of “corrective rape” is widespread in South Africa, whereby men rape lesbians purportedly to “cure” them of their sexual orientation.

The trial of four suspected attackers began on 11 February 2009 in Delmas, Mpumalanga. One of the four alleged attackers pleaded guilty to rape and murder and was sentenced to 32 years’ imprisonment. In September 2009 another was convicted of murder, rape and robbery, and sentenced to life plus 35 years, while the remaining two accused were acquitted.

Honours

A miniature bridge was erected in KwaThema, Springs, Gauteng in her honour in 2009.

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