National Arts Festival marred by homophobic hate crime attacks

Incidents of violent homophobic hate crimes marred the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown over the weekend. In the early hours of Saturday morning, 21-year-old Rhodes music student Devon Florence and four of his friends, two men and two women, were attacked and beaten outside the Friars club. The trouble started earlier inside the venue when […]

TV station in trouble just for interviewing gay man

A Tanzanian TV channel is in hot water simply for interviewing a gay man.  Local media reported that the interview was shown on the Take One programme, screened on the Clouds TV channel, on Tuesday last week. It’s not clear what was said in the interview but the government has announced that it will now investigate […]