WeTheBrave warns of life threatening language barrier
Did you know that there’s no word for gay in Xhosa? Any word to describe a gay person is either derogatory or borrowed from other South African languages. Words used to describe gay men include isitabane, which is interpreted as a man who has chosen to act like a woman. There’s also abantu abathambileyo, meaning not […]
Now Botswana fights back against gay hate pastor Steven Anderson
LGBTI activists in Botswana have joined the fight to keep gay hate pastor Steven Anderson out of Africa. Anderson is set to visit South Africa for a one day missionary excursion on 18 September after which he plans to go to Botswana for a week to set up a branch of his extremist Arizona-based Faithful Word […]
Here’s the new Joburg biker group that’s unapologetically gay
Biker groups have traditionally been seen as bastions of gung-ho heterosexual masculinity. Now, a new gay biker group in Johannesburg is set to shake up the stereotype. Possibly the first if its kind in South Africa, the aptly named ‘The Unapologetic’ group is planning to start tearing up roads and highways across Gauteng. Mambaonline spoke […]