Eudy Simelane
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Career & Clubs
- Club
- South Africa women's national association football team
- National team
- South Africa
Personal
Simelane was born on 11 March 1977, in Kwa-Thema, a township in the Gauteng province, southeast of Johannesburg. When she was only four years old, she became interested in Football. Bafana Simelane said that his sister was a very playful child who developed a love for soccer from following him around everywhere he went.
Simelane used her status as a local soccer celebrity to further her LGBTQI+ activism. Helping to foster an LGBTQI+ friendly culture in her community, her bravery to live freely as a lesbian within her community established her as an inspiring and important LGBTQI+ icon.
Clubs
- South Africa women's national association football teamcurrent
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Identifiers & aliases
Eudy Simelane 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. Because of this, she was gang raped—in what was called corrective rape—and murdered at the age of 31.
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