Zimasile Zubair Shabangu was murdered in a suspected hate crime in Johannesburg A woman is devastated after witnessing her gay brother stabbed to death in front of her during a night out that went horribly wrong. When Zubaida Shabangu came up from Cape Town to Johannesburg for the weekend she looked forward to spending time with her brother Zimasile Zubair Shabangu.
She fondly describes her sibling as “practically my twin”. The 36-year-old Zimasile had been living and working in Gauteng for about two years and was employed by Transnet.
He was gay but it wasn’t something that had been explicitly talked about with his family. “Our parents did know but he never told our parents; there’s still a bit of stereotypes in the black community.