Cape Town — "Every day I live in fear that I will be raped," said Thembela*, one of thousands of lesbians across South Africa being terrorised by the scourge of "corrective rape".
By living openly as a lesbian in Gugulethu township in the Western Cape, Dick says she is at high risk of being assaulted by men intent on "correcting" her sexual orientation through rape.
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