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While Pride Month is commemorated at different times across South Africa, the month of June carries particular significance as the original Pride Month in the Northern Hemisphere. File Photo
BELIEFS

To object or not to object is a human right

Amendments to the Civil Union Act are unconstitutional for religious magistrates

  • Open Letter
8 min read
The bill proposes a transitional period of 24 months for the department of home affairs to enable officers an opportunity to be trained if it is passed. (Gallo)
CIVIL UNION ACT

Home affairs committee adopts Civil Union Amendment Bill

The bill, which will be presented to the National Assembly to pass, will afford same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples

  • Canny Maphanga
1 min read
A rose is a rose is a rose: We seriously need to rethink our ideas about conventional marriage, be it between heterosexual or same-sex couples. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP
CIVIL UNION ACT

There’s a queer way to think about marriage

"Since when is marriage a path to liberation?"

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
The underlying message being pushed is a narrow, conservative ideology: Be, heterosexual, traditional. Reject feminism. Reject LGBTQ rights. Photo: Antonio Bronic/Reuters
CARL COLLISON

Bill aims to fix same-sex marriage glitch

Couples are being turned away by the department of home affairs — prompting the introduction of an amendment Bill to Parliament last Friday

  • Carl Collison
3 min read