Lonwabo Jack was murdered on the weekend (Twitter) South Africa’s queer bloodbath continues as Lonwabo Jack becomes the sixth (known) LGBTIQ+ person murdered in the last few months. On Monday, reports emerged that the 22-year-old was killed in the Western Cape over the weekend after celebrating his birthday.
According to sources, Jack went out with friends in Nyanga, Cape Town on Saturday night to mark the occasion – but the festivities were not to last.
The next day, his body was discovered on a pavement. It appears that he’d been stabbed to death. “I rushed to the scene and I saw his body lying on the pavement and he was covered with a blanket,” the victim’s uncle, Monwabisi Jack, told the Daily Voice. “I saw that he was stabbed right in