Corrective rape is a criminal practice first seen in South Africa,[1] whereby lesbian women are raped by men, sometimes under supervision by members of their families or local communities, purportedly as a means of "curing" them of their homosexuality.[2][3]
The term corrective rape was first used in the early 2000s by human rights non-governmental organisations to describe rapes committed against South African lesbians. A notable attack of this kind came in 2008 when Eudy Simelane, a member of the South Africa women's national football team and a vocal LGBT-rights activist in South Africa, was gang raped and murdered in KwaThema, Gauteng. Two of her four assailants were ultimately convicted.
A November 2008 report by the NGO ActionAid and the South African Human Rights Commission reported that corrective rape is a serious problem.
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- Annie Kelly, "Raped and killed for being a lesbian: South Africa ignores 'corrective' attacks", The Guardian, 2009-03-12
- Yolanda Mufweba, "'Corrective rape makes you an African woman'", Saturday Star, 2003-11-07
- Vasu Reddy, Cheryl-Ann Potgieter, and Nonhlanhla Mkhize, "Cloud over the rainbow nation: 'corrective rape' and other hate crimes against black lesbians", HSRC Review, 5(1) (March 2007): 10–11
- 'Corrective Rape': Fighting a South African Scourge, Time, 8 March 2011
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