Eudy Simelane

Eudy Simelane
Personal information
Date of birth (1977-03-11)11 March 1977
Place of birth KwaThema, South Africa
Date of death 28 April 2008(2008-04-28) (aged 31)
Place of death KwaThema, South Africa
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Springs Home Sweepers F.C.
International career
South Africa
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Eudy Simelane (11 March 1977 – 28 April 2008) was a South African footballer who played for the South African national team and was an LGBT rights activist. She was one of the first lesbian women to live openly in KwaThema, Springs, Gauteng.[1] Because of this, she was murdered on April 28, 2008. Eudy Simelane died at the age of 31.

  1. ^ Kelly, Annie (12 March 2009). "Raped and killed for being a lesbian: South Africa ignores 'corrective' attacks". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 February 2012.

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