40,000 sign “stop Pastor Anderson” petitions as he vows to come to SA
Two petitions calling on the government to block gay hate pastor Steven Anderson’s trip to South Africa have been signed by almost 40,000 people. It’s an astonishing response to the American preacher’s planned “soul winning” expedition to spread his twisted version of Christianity in Johannesburg on 18 September. In an interview with Ivor Blumenthal on […]
Watch the gay family scene that’s been banned on DSTV
The animated series The Loud House has become the latest show to be censored in South Africa due to gay content. Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) Africa, located in Johannesburg, has dropped an episode of the children’s show because it features a bi-racial gay couple and their son, which are not seen as “family” in […]
Unilever lights up in rainbow colours for Durban Pride
It’s a first for South Africa as a major corporation shows its support for a Pride event in a very public and colourful way. To celebrate Durban Pride Week (18 to 24 July), consumer goods giant Unilever South Africa has lit up its head office in the city in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and […]
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 […]
Hypocritical Pastor Anderson moans that he’s being persecuted
Steven Anderson, the gay hate pastor coming to South Africa, is upset that he’s become the target of a campaign against his church. In a YouTube video, he lashed out at people with a “pro-homo” agenda who have made it their “full time job to harass and persecute us, to mess with us any way possible”. He […]
Elton John: Aids won’t end if we leave LGBT Africans behind
Elton John says that the continued stigma and discrimination against LGBT people in Africa will hamper efforts to end the Aids epidemic. Representing his Aids Foundation, John spoke alongside his husband David Furnish to journalists at the International Aids Conference in Durban on Wednesday. He insisted that LGBT people and other key populations must receive equal […]
Durban welcomes sixth Feather Awards Dialogue
The sixth Chevrolet Feather Awards Dialogue takes place in Durban on Friday 22 July. This year, the annual awards ceremony is marking its eighth anniversary by travelling to eight provinces to engage with communities about LGBTI issues and challenges. The dialogues are hosted in partnership with long standing sponsors Chevrolet and Films and Publications Board, joined by […]
DA slams Minister Gigaba for “misleading” SA over gay hate pastor
The DA says that Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba is lying about his claimed inability to stop gay hate Pastor Steven Anderson’s visit to South Africa. Gigaba’s spokesperson recently stated that “the law doesn’t allow us to turn away anyone from entering the country based on what they have said”. In a statement, the DA slammed Gigaba’s “poor […]
Was Nice Bastille Day mass killer bisexual?
In an unexpected twist, investigators have claimed that the man who killed 84 people in a truck attack in Nice last week was bisexual. Mohamed Bouhlel drove a 19-tonne truck into a crowd of families and gunned down bystanders as they celebrated Bastille Day on the French city’s Promenade des Anglais, before he was shot […]
WeTheBrave moves to tackle HIV among MSM in KZN
Almost half (48.2%) of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in Durban are estimated to be living with HIV. This is according to the South Africa MSM Data Triangulation Project Report published by the Department of Health. Factors listed in the report contributing to this exorbitant figure include alcohol usage […]