Chris Williams, Author at MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online https://www.mambaonline.com/author/chris-williams/ South Africa's leading LGBTQ news and community platform Fri, 24 Jul 2015 14:57:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.mambaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-mamba_logo_output-32x32.png Chris Williams, Author at MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online https://www.mambaonline.com/author/chris-williams/ 32 32 Behind South Africa’s reluctance to champion gay rights on the continent https://www.mambaonline.com/2015/07/24/behind-south-africa-reluctance-champion-gay-rights-continent/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2015/07/24/behind-south-africa-reluctance-champion-gay-rights-continent/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:03:50 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=55436 This article originally appeared in The Conversation. South Africa is, in some ways, the exception to the generally grim situation facing the estimated 50 million-strong lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community in Africa. Its progressive constitution explicitly prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. The country’s vibrant civil society includes a broad range of gay […]

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