“He took me to his friend’s house and told Some years later, Simphiwe’s uncle decided that marriage would “cure” his niece of her sexuality. She spoke to her mother and grandmother, who insisted it was a family matter
The next morning, she awoke bleeding and in severe pain. Know at the time it was rape, because I was only 13,” she told me. A tomboy, she was raped at age 13 by an uncle who didn’t approve of her “boyish” ways. One woman I met, Simphiwe Thandeka, was “correctively” raped three times.
