Transgender woman Siphosethu Nkololo suffered serious injuries in the attack Attacks on LGBTQ+ people have been on the rise over the past few weeks, including the serious hate crime assault of a transgender woman in Port Elizabeth. Twenty-five-year-old Siphosethu Nkololo has been left with debilitating and painful injuries after an altercation with a taxi driver in Motherwell, a township in Nelson Mandela Bay.
She told MambaOnline that on the morning of Sunday 23 August she was chatting with her friends in the street when the man grabbed the weave off of her head. “He started insulting me with his two friends, calling me stabane and moffie [both queerphobic slurs] and telling me that I’ll never be a woman,” Nkololo says. “I tried to ignore