Raped for being gay: Scourge of South African sex attacks which men claim will 'cure' women of being lesbians

Gang-raped, beaten and stabbed 25 times, she was the lesbian activist and football star whose murder blew open South Africa's hate crime epidemic.

But more than two years after the death of Eudy Simelane, the government has done nothing to halt the barbaric sex attacks dubbed 'corrective' rape.

Campaigners say that ten women are now assaulted every week by men who claim to be 'curing' their victims of homosexuality.

The attacks are often accompanied by such horrifying violence that women are left permanently scarred - or fatally injured.

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