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Original Post Date: 2008-04-04 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Natasha Joseph
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) says it is losing “huge numbers” of members in Khayelitsha because “thugs” are threatening and assaulting anyone wearing its distinctive “HIV Positive” T-shirts.
Even the parents of an 18-year-old TAC member who was raped and murdered in Khayelitsha more than two years ago say they fear retribution as two men from the area were found guilty earlier this week of killing her.
The TAC is to consult its lawyers about seeking an urgent interdict against those who threaten or harass its members.
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, TAC members from the Harare area of Khayelitsha said they were afraid to attend branch meetings.
Young members’ parents had made their children withdraw from the TAC, said Khayelitsha member Mthutuzeli Dutyulwa.
Speaking through an interpreter, Constance Makeke, whose daughter, Nandipha, was murdered in a Khayelitsha toilet in December 2005, said at the meeting that she and her family were frightened by violence in Harare.
She and her husband were in the Khayelitsha magistrate’s court on Wednesday to hear Thembinkosi Ntukani and Bonga Sibhozo being declared guilty of murdering their daughter.
Makeke said the prolonged court case had been “a difficult time” for the family, and she questioned “how the justice system works”.
“We will never get Nandipha back.”
Nandipha was the second TAC activist to have been raped and murdered in Khayelitsha.
Lorna Mlofane, 21, was raped and then, after disclosing to her rapist that she was HIV-positive, murdered in December 2003.
Ncedile Ntumbukane was sentenced by the Cape High Court in February 2006 to life in prison for murdering Mlofane and a concurrent 10 years for raping her. A woman soccer player, Vuyelwa Dlova, was sentenced to 10 years, three of them suspended for three years, for assault.
The TAC’s provincial co-ordinator, Fredaline Booysens, said the organisation was “not celebrating victory” in Nandipha Makeke’s case because the two men had not yet been sentenced.
Dutyulwa alleged that TAC members in Khayelitsha had been threatened by a particular man. This man, Dutyulwa said, had threatened to shoot TAC members.
The man and others had told TAC members not to wear their “HIV Positive” T-shirts because they would be “beaten up”, said Dutyulwa.
In a statement distributed at the meeting, the TAC said it would “not be intimidated into silence in Khayelitsha or anywhere else”.
A march is to be held later this month in Harare, and another in Cape Town on May 8.
These marches would focus on community and gender-based violence, the TAC said.
Booysens said the organisation would step up its community education programmes.
It was calling on the government, the police, community groups, trade unions and “ordinary community members” to take part in TAC campaigns, Booysens said.