Minister accepts gay hate pastor petition, asks for dossier of evidence
Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has accepted a massive petition from the LGBTI community and says he’ll do all he can to stop or limit ‘kill-the gays’ pastor Steven Anderson’s visit. On Monday, Gigaba met with organisations such as GaySA Radio, OUT LGBT Well-being and FEW (Forum for the Empowerment of Women). Led by GaySA […]
NG Kerk given extension to allow gay unions or face legal action
The Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) or NG Kerk has been given until 9 September to implement its suspended decision to recognise same-sex unions – or face legal action. In October 2015, the General Synod of the DRC voted to allow individual church councils to recognise and bless same-sex relationships, and to drop the prohibition on […]
Travesty of justice – anger as Jon Qwelane avoids justice once again
In what seems to be a bad joke with no end, the eight-year-long Jon Qwelane hate speech case has been postponed – possibly indefinitely. The matter was set to resume in the South Gauteng High Court on Monday, but took an unexpected turn when Qwelane’s legal representatives asked for a postponement because of his poor […]
Update: Pastor Steven Anderson’s new secret plans for Joburg trip already crumbling
American “kill-the-gays” Pastor Steven Anderson’s latest secret plans for his visit to South Africa have been leaked. Anderson, who heads up Tempe’s Faithful Word Baptist Church, is set to visit Johannesburg in a missionary style evangelical excursion on 18 September to “win souls” for his hateful cause. The vile proselytiser preaches that gay people should be […]
Amazing! Record-breaking Team LGBT won 25 medals at Rio Olympics
More than half of the 53 openly LGBT athletes who took part in the Rio Olympics won a medal; a larger haul than any country that criminalises homosexuality. According to OutSports, taking into account the medals handed out for team sports (for example, gold medals were won by four out women on the US basketball […]
This Ugandan minister claims gays want to rape him & he’s getting a “find-the-gays” machine
By claiming that gay people are out to rape him and announcing that he’s getting a “find-the-gays” machine, Uganda’s minister of ethics should be the laughing stock of the world – if he wasn’t so dangerous. In a bizarre new interview with the notoriously anti-gay Red Pepper tabloid, Simon Lokodo, the so-called Minister of Ethics and Integrity, […]
We love it! Is this SA’s gayest ever music video?
Funky electronic act The Kiffness have released an amazing new video honouring SA’s LGBTI community and the victims of the Orlando massacre. The Cape Town based duo’s dancefloor killer track You Say You Love Me features the vocal talents of American singer Tawanna Shaunte and is described as “a song about love, rejection and all […]
This is Phuti Lekoloane – South Africa’s first openly gay male footballer
Phuti Lekoloane, Africa’s first openly gay professional male footballer, talks to Mambaonline about coming out in the macho sports world and being openly discriminated against. While women’s national team football players, like Portia Modise, and Olympic athlete Caster Semenya are openly LGBT, the major male sporting codes remain firmly closeted in South Africa. That started […]
MultiChoice doesn’t give a damn about censoring LGBT shows
African broadcaster MultiChoice has finally responded to our concerns about it removing Caitlyn Jenner’s show I Am Cait from its schedule – and we aren’t impressed at all. Last week, we reported that the South African-owned pay-TV company had blocked all its viewers across the continent, including in South Africa, from watching the show because […]
Mafikizolo star’s interview about the “pain” of being called gay
It seems that being seen as gay was a horrific life-changing trauma for Theo Kgosinkwe from Mafikizolo, one of the country’s most iconic groups. While some straight celebrities shrug off or even embrace rumours about their sexuality as a way to show their progressive views, Kgosinkwe explains in a new interview that he needed to […]