And while South Africa has a famously inclusive constitution that protects the rights of its gay citizens, an Afrobarometer survey recently found that 21% of South Africans aren’t tolerant of homosexuals, with corrective rape of women and hate crimes against gay men, especially in rural communities, continuing to pose a serious problem.
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The Love Not Hate campaign, a South African nation-wide multi-partner initiative addressing violence against LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) people, recently reported a senseless murder of a young lesbian woman.
Freedom Day quickly turned tragic for South Africa’s LGBT community, following the murder of a gay man who was stabbed and brutally assaulted with a pole. 27-year-old Tebogo Mokhoto was killed in a bloody attack on the East Rand, during which he was anally raped with a wooden object.
South Africa’s health system has welcomed the much-anticipated launch of a publication that responds to the urgent need to address HIV among transgender people.
The document, entitled ‘Implementing comprehensive HIV and STI programmes with Transgender people’, represents an international collaboration between donor groups, policy makers and implementing organisations.
South African based transgender rights organization earlier this month announced the appointment of Tshepo Ricki Kgositau as their new Executive Director. Tshepo has previously served GDX’s Regional Programs Coordinator for seventeen months and Advocacy Officer of Rainbow Identity Association in Botswana.
In March 2014, young gay man has been brutally tortured and killed in a horror hate murder in the Western Cape. It was reported that 23-year-old David Olyne from Ceres was killed while a group of teens blithely watched on.
Anglican bishops from across southern Africa have resolved that gay and lesbian partners who enter same-sex civil unions under South African law should be welcomed into congregations as full members of the church.
With more effort being directed to raising awareness of transgender issues in Africa, South Africa is spearheading this long overdue campaign with the very first Transgender Visibility Day in Africa.
Given and Ntabi Vhuromo tied the knot in Polokwane in what is believed to be Polokwane first gay wedding at the weekend.
MARTHA Rachoane of GaMphalele Limpopo looked on proudly as her gay son Nthabiseng Sello Rachoene danced down the aisle in a puffy white wedding dress and a bouquet of pink roses.
South African Court Hands Lesbian Killer Two Life Sentences
By Ambrose Barigye
Potchefsroom’s North West High Court yesterday sentenced Stofferl Pule Motlhokwane to two life sentences for the murder of Disebo Gift Makau, an openly gay woman.