A 23 year old South African man who won a Miss Gay pageant last year has been killed.
Thapelo Makutle (pictured above), known as Queen Bling, was found in his room with his throat slit last week Saturday. His friend told police that Thapelo had argued with two heterosexual men the previous day about his sexuality, the two men followed him home, broke down his door and killed him.
The late Makutle was active in the LGBT community in the Kuruman region, and his family and friends are angry that no one has been arrested for his murder despite the fact that the attackers description was given to police.
Killing someone because of their sexuality is the height of man's inhumanity to man. So sad!
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Is it a man-turned-woman or a woman-turned-man?
Lmfaoo mak him go heaven go yan baba GOD why him leav natural female pus+* go turn gay.....is a pity but i hate gays wit all my life and if i catchone..na 14yrs in prison ooo(omo-iwo)says so...via blackberrybold.5
lidibabay my comment don pain sum people die lmfaooo legooo..
This isn't the first of its kind. They usually rape lesbian women in South Africa to "correct" them.
They are trying to force this homosexuality thingy on people when they aren't ready.
Dats just too bad, he has freedom to life. I hope dey get caught soon #Godis watching#
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fz3zFqLc3E
yeah he didn't deserve to die.....but lin honey I'm sometimes confused on where you stand on this matter are you for or against ????
Now we know your are in support of homosexuality. Your audience is Nigerian. WE DON'T CARE!
Awww this is just sad. I'm not #Teamgay and all that. But, I say, live and let live. Killing is and won't be the answer. RIP
So sad... But Linda, these your weird stories today ehn!
Sa is really not a funny country
Linda I concur. That's why we'll continue to be tagged as Third World. The narrow mindedness of people in Africa will continue engender underdevelopment. RIP bro
This real wickedness of the first order.........These guys are in-human to kill a fellow being.Linda did you say Miss Gay Pageant? Whatever, no one have the right to take someone else life....is quite a pity...RIP
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Being publicly gay is a risk activity in Africa,I don't like the act but people have the right to choose their sexual preference...Word of advice,buy a gun if you want to be open about your homosexuality
So sad as you say, Linda. And sad about what it says about our narrow-minded, ignorant generation. A transvestite could be a big-time entertainer. That apart, he had a right to life and happiness like everyone else. May the poor fellow rest in peace. Those who murdered him will not escape nature's punishment even if they escape the law's.
This is utterly wrong and barbaric. No one deserves to die in such a dehumanizing way. Gay people are human beings too. Please let's learn to show them LOVE not HATE
RIP
*clenched fist up saying - power to the gays*
*angry face*.......It is so sad.....May GOD punish them.....Amen.
You mean killing someone because of their ''sexuality''.
QF
Gayism isnt acceptabl no mat hw we try to paint it...i guess dey planned it for a long tym.
So sad,I dnt know why his sexual preference is their problem?
And gay pple are plenty in SA,so y d beef?
Its a pity. May his soul RIP. Justice must surely prevail!!!
But, why would he go and be openly gay in SA!! A place where they kill you if they suspect you're gay! Nobody deserves to die like that but gays need to be cautious. He should have relocated to the UK or USA. RIP sha!
~ Menakaya's Baby.
which one is Miss Gay? *confusedface*. Sad story sha
Its funny how humans take power into their hands...no one has d right to kill another based on deir sexual preference..we all have d right to make choices.
I'm not blaming the victim, but coming out or flaunting ur sexuality in many African countries is a death sentence. Don't go by what is shown on tv. Even in many places in america, u can't be openly gay. That being said, may his soul rest in peace. He did not deserve to be killed like a goat. No one does....
we rili do nt have d rite 2 take lives even if we cant stand dem...dats y naija z d best...even wif our blunt attitudes our hearts are d best u culd get in the whole wild world....GOD BLESS NIGERIANS,GOD BLESS D GAYS,GOD BLESS LINDA,GOD BLESS ME.
Linda, be honest with yourself and tell us if yu really like gayism.....Anytime i read your comments on gays, i just know and realize yu are playing to the gallery to be seen to be an objective columnist,buh yu are not been yourself.........All this 'height of inhumanity crap' yu write are simply unbelievable and carry no weight.......hope yu post this.....
This is so sad. It happens in south Africa alot. Lesbians are a target too.
What will they gain after killing him?
So sad...people swear homosexuality is prohibited in the bible but forget that hate and murder are prohibited too... #hypocrisy
Gays and Lesbians should not be tolerated. Their lifestyle is one of the highest level of disrespect and ungratefulness to God.
So cold!!! Who are we to jugde?
Linda u didn't say whether he changed from a girl to boy or boy to girl cos that pix there is confusing me :s. But no mata what,he shouldn't have been killed,its what he has chosen to become so no one should judge him aside God.. Pls his killers shud be brought to book
AwWw
RIP bro
Sad face
Fire bun chi chi man. Overly gay over the top battyman fi dead. We need some of this in Naij to quell the trend. TIA. All will witness when Babylon falls!
Very bad and inhuman.
This is not the way to fight this evil trend... You don't fight evil with evil.. All heterosexuals who are disgusted with this, should not allow the negativity to darken their hearts, because in reacting, you might actually stop someone from being the next testimony about how powerful our God can be in changing Sauls to Pauls.
I like to remember Pa Adeboye's words in an interview with CNN earlier this year. He said he wouldn't be happy at the death of a muslim or a Boko Haram person because that is the death of a potential convert. Every unrepentant gay, bi, lesbo or trans who dies will only bring tears to the heavens and break the heart of God, and it would fulfill the purpose of our adversary the devil.
Do not become an instrument in the devil's workshop. Remember that one of the 1st people to know Jesus had risen was once a prostitute (Mary Magdalene), who Jesus himself saved from death at the hands of men who felt that there were righteous..
We are all sinners, but for HIS saving grace do we have the privilege to be called sons of God.
Which kind life b dis way human bin is so unkind 2 man kind*in 2 face voice* ZINA GH
Heya,he died cos his gay? So sad but linda do u even edit sturvs before posting? " Killing someone because of their sexually " pls don't spoil my english o
Gay dude killed by Anti-Gay Dudes.
Why wud they tak his life.
Am so not insupport of d killing even thou his lifestyle is so disgusting.
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well, going against the natural sexual order is the height of man's disobedience of the divine order sanctioned by the Lord!!!
Good riddance to bad rubbish... I wish our politicians in the United Kingdom were as brave as your African politicians on the issue of homosexuality
I'm proudly homophobic so I'll say he deserved what he got.
Am speechless only God can judge.let me continue pinging with my via blackberry curve 4
Cheyaaa how sad
Cheyaa how sad
may his soul rest in peace. via 4eva young
People need to be better than this. Why not just let people be. So sad.
So sad!! How was his sexuality affecting the hetero men??? God!!! R.I.p xx
I still dnt understand why South Africa's av so much hatred 4 Gays n Transgender despite d level of immorality in deir Country...
I saw dis gay guy mobbed in downtown Johannesburg sumtime last yr 4 bin gay!, dey almst killed him if nt for d police men dat came to his rescue!
Dats so inhuman!
Sad sad...
kai Linda shut up...u go do lesbianism? Lol
Why can't people just live and let's live? This is really sad
Linda abegi!!..people wish gays things much worse than death on ur blog so what's new about that?..those same people will come here and type "awww that's wicked"..abegi!
People are so mean. Leave the person to be gay now. Wetin concern you for the matter. As long as it doesn't affect you, what is your problem. RIP.
ok linda npost comments would you.kilode?
If you like, don't post this comment..I know you are making yourself look neutral about people's sexuality because you don't want people to think otherwise about you....Good the monkey was dealt with. His penis was cut off his body and put in his mouth. We watched it on TV here in Cape Town. This is an animal act and he got animal treatment for that.
You are disgusting.
There's never a good excuse for murder.
He who is without sin let him/her cast d 1st stone..there are gays who contribute more to d economy dan most people who claim they are straight..u aint gay but u rape under age kids? U aint gay but u rob people @ gunpoint?..u aint gay but u are a prostitute? U aint gay but u fornicate or commit adultery?..as a xtian I dnt support gay BUT he who is without sin.....
Olodo 'with my via ' pick one!
The stupid stuff I read on here makes my blood curl. How are you proudly homophobic?! Did you miss that part about loving your neighbor?! And y'all be the ones that stay y'all asses in church. Praying to who?! God can't answer a hateful heart. This is wrong. This is evil. I can't believe someone did this to him. Rest in paradise Thapelo.
@Obie.
Everyone has sin but that shouldn't stop one from calling a spade a spade. Mind you that those involved in rape, murder, adultery are usually not let to go scot free. Your point is invalid and doesn't change the fact that homosexuality is something not to engage in.
Very well said! If you are not a pastor, you should become one!!! You can preach! What you said really touched my heart :)
Well let the Lord punish him, not you or the evil killers that took his life!
ASA, clap for yourself! You refer to another HUMAN BEING as a monkey? And you are ecstatic that his penis was cut off and put in his mouth?! Simply cos he's gay...
I hope for your sake (and the sake of God's green earth) that you don't bring children into this world cos i shudder to think of what you would teach them in a world already filled with so much hate. I guess Boko Haram is doing a great job eliminating christians just cos they cant stand them, right?
I'm not gay but i believe everyone is free to do whatever they want with their lives. It's THEIR lives and at the end of the day, we'll all answer to our maker. Who the bleep died and made you a judge over people
Linda, you shouldnt approve such comments pls. You should have rules guiding comments you post. If you can block Gbenga's comments, pls do the same with these ones too.
he is dead n gone, may his gentle rude soul rest in... Bt i hate anyti abt gay or lesbianism is bad infact bullshit pls dis nt normal at all.
If u wish evil unto others, evil will come unto u, be careful! Same way u are proudly homophobic there is someone out there that is proudly rascist, he would be glad to give u what u "deserve"!!!!
Most so called Christians are NOTHING like Jesus Christ whom they claim to worship. All of u wicked people happy @ his death should answer this, "would Jesus have this man killed for his 'sins'?" I am pretty sure that u haters are hypocritic church goers, who fast and pray everyday to ur 'God'. I don't know what god u serve, but I know the Almighty God, father of Jesus Christ would never condemn a human being to murder for his/her sins. If He did, none of y'all would be alive! Is murder in itself not a horrible sin according to religious dictates? The same people who preach about judgment being for God alone will come here to rejoice over such a tragedy. Know this, unless u change ur own ways, u are a sinner yourself! God doesn't need ur help in carrying out His judgment! U are a disgrace to Christianity if u support this inhumane act!
People should leave homosexuals alone! If the fact that someone is gay causes u to be so angry, to the point u need to resort in killing, it means that the gay person evoked a filling of attraction in you! Yes, u hated the gay because he/she made u think in having intercourse with him/her! That's exactly what those South Africans men are, hidden gays! Because if they really didn't care about the gay and didn't want to sleep with him, they would have left him alone!
Linda I remember when u posted something condeming gays! Now u have become an advocate for homosexuality :)
@ David just shut the hell up! So u are justifying the death of another human being for his own 'sin'? How about I kill u and ur loved ones for theirs? Would u justify my actions? So becos u don't believe homosexuality is right, they should be killed? U are such an idiotic ass!
And those that don't believe in God shd now do what? Or those gays that believe God loves them should now do what? Abegiii!!
Very touching comment
I wonder oh! So why are we not killing adulterers etc? Hypocrites!! Just cos u don't agree with someone's sexuality doesn't give u the right to take their life.
So also killing!!!
9:22 thanks so much for that. Don't understand how evil minded some ppl can be. 4:92 u shd b praying to ur God to make u more tolerant. Even Jesus dined with sinners. Hypocrite!!
@David I said "as a xtian I DONT support homosexuality"..truth is,u can't compare wat 2 adults do between themselves to crimes like robbery,child abuse..prostitution is legalized in some parts of italy but its not so in Nigeria..homosexuality is legalized in some parts of USA but not in Nigeria..these are bcus of varying cultures and belief..robbery,child abuse,manslaughter is a crime in the 3 countries I mentioned..dats d difference..
Thanks anon9:22 u took the word right out of my mouth!!! If u wish other evil then evil will come on to u
ASA u r no different from the murderers. U better change ur evil mindset.
I tire for hypocrites!!! who made them judge over whether a gay deserves to live or die?! Arghhhh!! Evil ppl.
Asa u will rot in hell
Same ppl will b in front row in church tomo. Tuffiiaaaa.!!!! Murderers!
Ye but who made them judge over the matter? What right have they over whether he lives or dies? I'm sure the same ppl r adulterers, fornicators, etc. We might as well kill them too.
Some ppl r so disgustingly evil!! Cnt wait for their judgement. Always acting like they are better than a gay man. This is the kind of thing the Bible is promoting! Smh!!! Last time I checked Jesus loves everyone and preached love. These ppl need tomo stop being hypocrites. I am so tired of this evil. Like we dnt have enough crap to deal with in this world. Arrghhh!!!
Funny how being gay is such a big no no but they will eff around and spread HIV. That's SA and the rest of the world for u. Instead of them to deal with the high crime rate in their country they are killing innocent men who have caused no harm to anyone.
@ Anonymous June 16, 2012 9:36 PM
I never said I supported killing the man. Read properly before posting rude and illogical comments. Thanks as you do that.
Hopeless nigerian.u really want to be a rastafaran by all means shey?talk abt the height of hopelessness!hw many rastafarans want to be nigerians!pls take several seats my frnd!pple dt talk rubbish shldnt ve opinions!TONI
With my via?really?a ton of nigerians need to go back to primary school!a ton of nigerians!wat is it wt ds bad english syndrome everywhere?o ga o...TONI
Sad buh Y will they kill him cause of ??????? its wrong!
all of you saying he deserved what he got have you ever setled down for one second to think. why would a man leave breasts and pussy and go for dick. it is not the own doing. they were obrn that way. FUckers you all are.
ONOME says.......
He was murdered just because he has a sexual preference different from what self proclaimed straight people have??What utter BS!
I don't support their lifestyle but I am no homophobic cos I do not claim to understand what I really don't understand.
And I see hypocrites actually glad with the murder?Jeeez!Where is your sense of judgement?And of course they go to church every Sunday and sit in the front pews.Murder is quite alright in the bibles they read.How sad.
Tunji: and killing people isn't? Do you know that there are alot of things that the Bible says it's okay to do? Including owning slaves, stoning people who sleep with others? Bible also says it is a sin to shave or eat certain seafoods, which i am sure you do both. Moreover, few people have used the verse in the bible about women being submissive as a justification for brutally assaulting their wives for not doing what they said. My point is, you cannot pick and choose what part of the bible to use to condemn fellow human beings. It is up to God to decide their fates.
Moreover Bible also said not to judge others and to stone hypocrites. So by judging others based on the Bible, you have become a hypocrite and i reserve every right (justified by the Bible) to stone the crap out of you next time i see you buddy. #quitbeinganarrowmindedidiot
Yeah maximus I support ur speech. Power 2 d GAYS!!!
It's amazing how people are selective about sin. "gay" is not acceptable as you put it...but MURDER is????!! Idiots! I don't agree with the lifestyle...I probably will never understand it but I am NOT God!
Based on the bible, the gay man, plus the murderers, plus you who tell little lies here and there or are fornicating...you will all end up in Hell. Go figure! So quit with the ignorance.
It's ironic because what you are saying is not acceptable was legalised in SA in 2006 while murder still remains a crime!
I am sure the police can't be bothered.But killing is abit extreme though.
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SMH
You are not gay, but you are a murderer...Thank God for your life.
God gives us all life...yeah even gays. God didn't take the life of the gay person but you stepped in to 'help' God by killing the gay guy. I mean it must have been something he had in mind but just hadn't quite got round to doing. God must be so pleased with you. He must have given you a special blessing as you slit the deviant's throat. The blessing must be eternal life here on earth because as we all now know...you will never get to face death yourself or answer for your sins...That one gay guy murder totally made you a saint!
His murderers will probably never read this is specially dedicated to every single soul who thinks it gay people should be killed....may God forgive you!!!!
-An aggrieved heterosexual Christian
Killing is also sometin not to engage in! What's the difference btw a murderer and a gay? Pls david tell me
Wat da heck!! Rape? As a corrective measure??? Na wah 4 some men ooo!! Kai
tufiakwa.tufiagi.which one be power to gays,Aru
I do not support homosexuality of any kind and.....I absolutely do not support killing another human being because he/she is homosexual.
That is just wrong simple. I care that another human life was carelessly wasted, be it homosexual or not.
#word#
@ Tobenna Okoye
We are tagged third world for several reasons:
Failed government, recycled incompetent leaders, bad infrastrature, not making use of our natural resources, not quality education to compete with others from different part of the world, etc. Homosexuality is the least, actually it's non existent on the list. Many countries especially latin countries, Asians are against open homosexuals, and they are not tagged third world. So, it has nothing to do with it.
Can Africans get it in their head, American freedom of everything goes WILL NOT work in Africa, cultural differences. Murder in general is wrong. Let's not make it only a gay thing, many other people are killed everyday for no reason.
The Nigerian government tag G̲̣̣̣̥α̲̅Ɣ married a crime, but not G̲̣̣̣̥α̲̅Ɣ life. Gays Α̲̅ή∂ lesbians continue t̶̲̥̅ơ̴͡ gain freedom in Nigeria each @Ɣ.. Behind the close doors, Ȋ̝̊̅§ a shame t̶̲̥̅ơ̴͡ South Africa, a country who gave her G̲̣̣̣̥α̲̅Ɣ Α̲̅ή∂ lesbian citizens right t̶̲̥̅ơ̴͡ be free in the open, but yet they Α̲̅я̩̥̊ƺ being killed. Thank God A̶̲̥̅♏ a Nigerian Α̲̅ή∂ may God bless our G̲̣̣̣̥α̲̅Ɣ Α̲̅ή∂ lesbian citizens
@ Vi, - Ignorance is no longer bliss . . . Please which Latin American and Asian (outside maybe 3-4, at most 5-6, considering how Asia is massive) countries are not third world? I try not to comment but some ignorance does get me especially on this blog. We don't all have to comment. I know I have digressed from the topic but just had to say this.
Linda is a straight woman who understands that being gay is not a choice thing. u cannot force a man whose penis has an erection for another man to date a woman. we cannot kill gay people because its not their fault. leave gay people alone AFRICANS! leave them alone. its simple, close ur eyes when u see one. omg. ugh!
Linda,
A few days ago you posted a pic of a gay man who's 'supposed husband padlocked his thingy' in your mind, you thought that was funny, but someone rightfully mentioned it's defamatory and false news-bites that perpetuate such hatred and mis-education.
Until people realise that they can not oppress people who have committed no crimes against 'others' and until people stop celebrating brutality and the 'bullying' or abuse of other human beings, because of 'their' personal likes and beliefs, then these kind of things will keep happening.
People might think its a choice to be gay, or to be born a transsexual, but if they really look at it, who would choose to risk a life of abuse?
May his soul rest in peace.
Nigerians forget all this archaic stone-age beliefs, if 5000 years ago there were homosexuals in the world, and there are homosexuals today, nothing, absolutely nothing you can do will change that...
Furthermore, if there is a God, and he so loved the world, why then would he not have just removed all homosexuals from the world? would he really pat you on the back and thank you for your hatred, or your bigotry and hypocrisy?
We have all supposedly fallen short of the glory of God, if I were you, I would find out why that's so.....I suspect its because we are full of hatred and wickedness towards our fellow man...
E patewo fun ira yin,
People are funny, so this 'Human Being' deserved to die because he is gay? Did your religion say 'You should take your god's judgment into your own hands?'
All of you will suffer tenfold for condoning this or even thinking for a second that it is justifiable.
When you have your own kids, you will begin to appreciate life. It will be too late for you, but Karma will always catches up...
Lol. Boko Haram hasn't started yet...the measure you judge with is the measure that will be used to judge you.
In the meantime, RIP may his sacrifice, be rewarded, like those of women who were killed by rapist, and black people who were killed for the color of their skin, or Jesus of was killed for being the 'so called' messiah....though his followers havent learnt the lessons he was supposedly teaching....and though he was a Jew who may or may not have lived 2000 years ago...
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so how do you refer to someone who changed his sexuality. Him, she or shim? If you deny one you should be the other or do we still refer to you as what you used to be before the change?
There are occultic homosexual groups that advocate in all sorts of ways esp thru d media. These same cults which consist of 'big men' in high places in d world, stage deaths like this so that pity wld be aroused nd homosexuality encouraged. They also sponsor researches to tel us that gay people are born that way. I have a fire-brand formerly gay christian friend who repented nd now is married. Gay people are not bad people. satan and his demons are the ones that christians should be fighting. We wrestle not against flesh nd blood but against principalities and powers, against wickedness in high places. Infact the bigger the country, the bigger the wickedness in high places. Remember that the devil is the ruler of the world. The murderers that kill gays are also devilish. We are in the world but we are not of the world. These are the end times. Repent and turn from your wicked ways. Sodom and gomorrah was real, and God was not happy. Soldiers of Christ wake up and stop being used by the devil who has only come to kill, steal and destroy. He is the biggest liar ever nd his greatest weapon in this age is the social media
It's obvious, you can't fix stupid.
You all have been brainwashed by missionaries who used a so called 'god' to rape and pillage, you think you speak for a 'god' that you know nothing of, using him as an excuse to justify your dammed ways.
Occult practices come in many shapes, even your preachers are adulterous and pedophiles. How two consenting adults being together is your concern is a mystery.
Soon, you will all look back and regret your actions, the murderers, the supports and those too weak to speak against such barbarity
@ Anon 10.12am
I didn't say the whole of Asia. At least, you can count 5-6 Asian countries that are picking up and not considered third world. For Latin countries, you can count 5 countries picking up and doing fine. In middle East, you can also count five.
Africa is the second largest, can you say the same for Africa, can't even pick one, the whole continent is considered third world.
My point is, homosexuality has nothing to do with it. Many developed/developing countries in the world have strong views about homosexuality and are still well respected.
Homosexuality will never be universal. It's unnatural. Murder is also wrong but unfortunately we live in a crazy world, where crazy things are bound to happen. Protest against violence should be the focus because heterosexuals, gays, children, men, women have been victim of that.
When religious beliefs are the enemy. African countries, they all use their deeply religious and cultural beliefs to bash gay people, yet they refuse to understand that every gay and lesbian Africans are deeply love by God. we fail to understand their silence,because we seems to see them as people with unatural sexuality.but that can never be use to justifies the way we see them, i am on the cultural and religious path and am sure many of u are too. But What i am attacking here is homophobic bigotry that justifies itself in religious and cultural circle in all African countries. One thing is that anytime a gay man or woman is kill in Africa, it weaken the heart of God so much that the heavens cried out loud in one voice and see Africa as a place where religious and cultural beliefs are the enemies of feedom,love and care. We suffer more because we claim to be more holy in our belief and culture, all that lead to hate crime and sadly the way we are now.so let us African be justified with our actions toward gay people and see them through the beauty and holiness of God, the very reason christ died and they were all set free.
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