Dating app abductions raise fears for LGBT+ safety in South Africa
THABSIE Mabezane, a transgender woman and LGBT+ activist in South Africa was aware of personal safety when she met a man on the dating app Tinder earlier this year. She told him that she preferred to meet up in a public space instead of at his home. But as she waited at their meeting point in Johannesburg an unregistered car pulled up and a man with a gun got out and coerced her into the vehicle. Mabezane said she was taken to an abandoned building where her kidnappers demanded she call friends and ask them to send money, she told…