/ 27 August 2010

Love hurts in the Boland

Love Hurts In The Boland

“This is great to see,” said Mic Brand on Cape Camp Culture’s candy-coloured website. “Das is sehr heiss [This is very sexy],” an anonymous admirer shared with the site: ‘Dit is prima! [It’s great!]” And from mybroadband came the assessment that ‘the guy on the left is actually pretty cute”.

Despite the gasps of disbelief ventilating Stellenbosch University since this photo appeared on the front page of its student newspaper Die Matie last week, reaction from beyond that small town — including internationally — has been warmly appreciative. And the university’s management pulled in behind Die Matie on e.tv news last weekend, applauding its student editors for publishing the photo.

Other media reports have revealed that the two men shown enjoying each other’s company are in fact students at the University of Cape Town, shown during the annual Soen in die Laan (Kiss in the Avenue) event at Stellenbosch University that welcomes students from both UCT and the University of the Western Cape as well. The event was organised by SU’s society Lesbigay, whose members had not previously taken part in Soen in die Laan because they felt “intimidated”, iol reported. Are some closet doors still tightly locked at Stellenbosch University?