Comments on: JOBURG PRIDE RESPONDS TO 1 IN 9 INCIDENT, BACKS THE GROUP

By: Vern

Vern — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don't care for anything that Tanya Tanya Harford has to say; her behaviour was appalling and unprofessional.

And as for the protest attempting to divide the GLBTI community along racial lines, that has been done a long time ago already.

Joburg Pride is nothing but a front and a party for white privilege, and using black people to colour it and, and to show "inclusiveness"; pretty much the same goes for Cape Town Pride. I support neither because they don't engender pride.

By: Danie de Waal

Danie de Waal — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

SHAME ON 1 in 9 using guerilla tactics against their own community.NO ONE HAD THE RIGHT TO BLOCK ROADS.

By: tania sani

tania sani — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Move Pride 2013 to Soweto.

By: History

History — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Here are a few facts people do not know and should be taken into account: the driving force behind the ‘1 in 9’ campaign is a veteran activist Carrie Shelver – who is white (it is her holding the bullhorn at some stage). She is also a past chairperson of Pride herself – in the late 90s and forced Pride through Hillbrow, and Jhb CBD when the majority of attendees did not want to go that route, mainly due to safety concerns. Shelver was also part of the Pride organising committees of the late nineties and early 2000s who left Pride with huge financial losses. She is well-known for stirring up racial tensions. Since the new Pride Board registered a non-profit company in 2007, Pride has turned around, is financially sound, attended by many more non-whites as ever before and in the words of Emily Craven, one of Shelver’s supporters, “stable” for 6 years – something unknown before 2007.

By: History

History — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

In reply to History.

Part 2 Shelver was also behind the protests to move the whole of Pride to Soweto. From that Soweto Pride was born, which is not very well attended (less than 1000 people). She has a gripe with the success of the new Pride board and this is the result there of. They did not approach Pride for a minute of silence before the time, instead they say they asked for it by staging a surprise attack (because that is what it was), on a legal and well-organised parade, without the people in the parade having a clue as to what they were asking or standing for . I was there and I saw it happen (not the scuffle involving Tanya though). They pulled a publicity stunt – which worked – but they did not earn the sympathy of parade participants of all races. Quite the opposite.