Eudy Simelane
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | March 11, 1977 | ||
| Date of death | April 28, 2008 (aged 31) | ||
| Place of death | KwaThema | ||
| Playing position | Midfield | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Springs Home Sweepers F.C. | |||
| National team | |||
| South Africa | |||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
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.
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.
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.
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