When the body of 23-year-old David Olyne was found at an abandoned pump station just outside Bella Vista in Ceres in the Western Cape, it immediately became clear his murder had been a rage-filled attack.
The openly gay young man — who locals described as “jolly” and a pleasure to be around — had been brutally beaten, bound with wire and, in a final act of degradation, set alight.
Despite a speedy arrest, the case would continue to be mired in controversy and mystery, with a group of teenagers pivoting between witness and suspect status and the term “hate crime” carefully sidestepped by authorities., we look at the horrific death of a young man as a result of his core identity.
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