South Africa: Men Who Killed Lesbian in Hate Crime Jailed

Cape Town — Four men were jailed for 18 years each by a Cape Town court on Wednesday for stabbing and stoning 19-year-old lesbian Zoliswa Nkonyana to death in 2006.

Magistrate Raadiyah Wathen sentenced Lubabalo Ntlabathi, Sicelo Mase, Luyanda Londzi, and Mbulelo Damba in the Khayelitsha Regional Court to 18 years each. Four years of their sentences were suspended for five years.

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