Actress Nomsa Buthelezi says her heart bleeds for the femicide pandemic that South African women face.
With the murders of several women dominating headlines over the last fortnight, Nomsa told TshisaLIVE that a lot of within the LGBTIQ+ community were targeted due to their sexuality.

She recounted her own experience of abuse, adding that ladies in SA feared for his or her lives a day.

“When I came out of the closet, many men were against me. They wanted to understand why I used to be dating women,” she said.
“There’s a man that I grew up with who told me people were talking about my sexuality. They said if their mentor was still alive, he would have insulted the lesbian out of me and that i would be straight again.
My heart remains bleeding from that incident. They never said sorry.”

Nomsa encouraged South African women, especially celebrities, to talk out and reveal any abusers in their lives. She said by doing in order that they are going to be saving many ladies that are following them on social media.Sis encouraged women to report abuse to the police and to show their abusers. She recalled another incident when a man threw a bottle at her leg, leaving her bleeding and angry. She took him to the police headquarters to be arrested.

“When I dragged the guy who assaulted me to the police headquarters, it had been not a joke. The police had no choice but to arrest him because I brought him myself and that i instructed the police to arrest him immediately.”

Nomsa acknowledged that not every woman gets the chance to bring their abuser to police – and lots of didn’t make it out alive.

“Women must fight once they face death. It’s tough to fight a person, but you can’t die without a fight.”