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A mixed bag for human rights in Southern Africa in 2019

Article Deprose Muchena - 21 Dec 2019

Abuses continued from Angola to Zimbabwe but there were also victories for people’s rights

High court decision affirms human rights of transgender people in Zimbabwe

Africa Tashwill Esterhuizen & Ricky Nathanson - 26 Nov 2019

In a progressive judgment with far-reaching implications, the Zimbabwean high court found that transgender people have the same rights as all citizens

MPs must kill the anti-gay Bill in Uganda

Article Rainer Ebert - 18 Oct 2019

Proposed legislation imposes the death penalty for gay sex or ‘recruitment’. But love is not a crime

A very African queerness

Africa Kevin Mwachiro - 10 Oct 2019

Love Falls On Us by Robbie Corey-Boulet explores queer spaces across Africa

Learning to live my truth as a gay person

Article Brindley J Fortuin - 30 Aug 2019

I was 22 years old before I was open about my sexuality. I hope others won’t have to wait so long

Being a mensch first, Edwin-style

Article Eusebius McKaiser - 22 Aug 2019

Above all, Justice Cameron learned and taught that you can never judge anybody by their cover

Shining a light on lesbian experiences in Nigeria

Africa Mamello Sejake - 22 Aug 2019

Pamela Adie’s LGBTQIA+ documentary ‘Under the Rainbow’, celebrates resilience and the pursuit of happiness and delivers its message as a love letter

Africa needs to hear queer stories

Article Carl Collison - 2 Aug 2019

For the past three years, Carl Collison has reported on LGBTI issues and stories for the Mail & Guardian, covering queer peoples’ lives

Germany plans to ban gay, lesbian ‘conversion therapy’

Article Agency - 11 Jun 2019

The German health minister plans to pass a law which prohibits gay and lesbian people from converting to heterosexual people

Botswana to rule on scrapping anti-gay laws

Africa Oarabile Mosikare - 10 Jun 2019

Homosexual acts are outlawed in Botswana — one of Africa's most stable, democratic nations — under the country's penal code of 1965

Where Kenya leads on queer rights, the rest of Africa must follow

Africa Chude Jideonwo - 23 May 2019

Friday’s ruling could be a new landmark in the fight for queer rights on the continent

Queer parade: Change agent or dated fluff?

Article Carl Collison - 10 May 2019

From Instagrammable activists to mincing, manicured Muscle Marys, this year’s Mr Gay World veered between a pageant and a movement

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High court refuses application to cross provinces for a funeral

Franny Rabkin - 28 Mar 2020

Despite “extreme sympathy”, court says it must uphold the law

National

Viral threat no match for Mama K’s Team 4

Lester Kiewit - 26 Mar 2020

While most of Netflix’s live-action productions have been suspended, work on Mama K’s forges on from the comfort of animators’ couches and kitchen tables

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Under lockdown SA’s working poor is just poor

Sarah Smit - 26 Mar 2020

Last week, the International Labour Organisation warned that the economic fallout of the coronavirus outbreak would have a devastating effect on global working poverty