While the Constitutional Court has agreed that certain sections of the Equality Act are unconstitutional, it has decided the issue of whether Jon Qwelane was guilty of hate speech
The court also found that the term hurtful should be excised from the Equality Act in that it did not meet the justification threshold in the Constitution and gave Parliament 24 months to do so
The Jon Qwelane case brings into focus the tension between hate speech and freedom of expression
The Johannesburg High Court today delivered a ruling declaring comments made in a 2009 column in Sunday Sun as hate speech.
South Africans share their stories of what it took for them to start overcoming homophobia.
Qwelane’s utterances are at last being examined legally to decide whether his insistence on his right to “free expression” has caused harm.
The best outcome of Jon Qwelane’s court case would be restoring the dignity of those he harmed.
The hate speech case against Jon Qwelane has reached a seeming stalemate once again.
Qwelane’s poor health was cited as a reason for the deferral of the case.
Six years later, former columnist Jon Qwelane still fights for right to call gay people names.
Melanie Judge asks if Jon Qwelane should be able to use the right to free speech to argue that others shouldn’t have rights.
SA ambassador to Uganda Jon Qwelane will challenge certain provisions of the Equality Act in the South Gauteng High Court in September.
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/ 2 September 2011
Jon Qwelane has won his case to have the Equality Court’s hate-speech judgment against him set aside, but this does not mean he is off the hook.
Jon Qwelane has won his case to have the hate speech verdict against him for a column set aside, but this does not mean he is off the hook.
Papers opposing Jon Qwelane’s application to revoke the hate speech judgment against him have been lodged by the SA Human Rights Commission.
Just as the world focused on the birth of a democratic SA, unimaginable horrors were being visited on people in another corner of the continent.
A rescission application against a hate speech judgment has been filed on behalf of SA’s ambassador to Uganda Jon Qwelane, his lawyers say.
Lawyers for Jon Qwelane, SA’s ambassador to Uganda, hope to file an application to rescind a hate speech judgment against the ex-journalist this week.
SA’s ambassador to Uganda, Jon Qwelane, will apply for rescission of a judgment in which he was found guilty of hate speech, his lawyers have said.
Is it homophobic to think of African homosexuals as cute, chirpy little things in brightly coloured feathers, asks <b>Chris Roper</b>.
Cartoonist Zapiro offered his take on hate-speech convict Jon Qwelane’s position as South Africa’s ambassador to Uganda in this week’s <i>M&G</i>.
A ruling of hate speech against SA ambassador to Uganda Jon Qwelane is a "personal matter" he will have to deal with, the government says.
Former <em>Sunday Sun</em> columnist Jon Qwelane was found guilty of hate speech by the Johannesburg Equality Court on Tuesday.
The Equality Court has postponed judgment in a case between the Human Rights Commission and Jon Qwelane over a "derogatory and homophobic" article.
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/ 31 January 2011
The DA on Monday called on President Jacob Zuma to remove controversial former columnist Jon Qwelane as South Africa’s ambassador to Uganda.
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/ 19 January 2010
The DA on Tuesday urged President Jacob Zuma not to appoint ‘committed homophobe’ Jon Qwelane as South Africa’s ambassador to Uganda.
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/ 8 September 2008
Shaun de Waal takes a look at the South African short films on at <i>Out in Africa</i> festival, tha opened last week.
The Sunday Sun‘s ”half-hearted” apology for publishing a column disparaging of gay people was ”inadequate”, a gay organisation says.
The Sunday Sun was ”disparaging” of homosexuals in publishing a column by Jon Qwelane headlined ”Call me names, but gay is NOT okay”.
Cape Town’s gay community will on Friday protest outside Media 24’s offices in reaction to a ”shocking homophobic article” written by John Qwelane.
<i>Sunday Sun</i> columnist Jon Qwelane launches an attack on gay South Africans — and the Constitution.
The SAHRC has received complaints against Sunday Sun columnist Jon Qwelane, spokesperson Vincent Moaga said on Wednesday,