Zim gov harasses activists at AIDS conference
LGBTI activists attending an international AIDS conference in Zimbabwe have had material confiscated and displays damaged by government officials. Some LGBTI groups had feared they would face harassment after it was announced earlier this year that the 18th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) would be hosted in Harare from 29 November […]
LGBTI music student stabbed to death in Potch
A talented young LGBTI life has been cut short in a brutal murder in Potchefstroom. The decomposing body of 35-year-old music student Bobby Motlatla was discovered in his flat last week, Tuesday. He had been stabbed on his bed multiple times. Motlatla was a promising third year music student at North West University (NWU), specialising […]
Johannesburg People’s Pride 2015 gallery
The Joburg People’s Pride movement held its third annual march through Hillbrow and Braamfontein on Saturday 21 November; remembering the activists who started South Africa’s LGBTI rights movement. Participants began the afternoon by making placards at Constitution Hill before embarking on the march with the intention of “reclaiming” the streets and making a radical political […]