Over the weekend, during Grietfest’s seventh annual bass music event, Brandon Swanepoel was assaulted for being gay. Now a manhunt is underway.
Headlines like this make me little bit sick, and leave me worrying about the state of tolerance and transformation in South Africa. Thapelo Makutle, a homosexual and transgender man living in Kuruman, was brutally attacked and beheaded in the Northern Cape. Words fail me.