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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
CONVERSION THERAPY

Children’s conversion therapy up for discussion in new bill

Conversion therapy in LGBTQIA+ children is discrimination on the basis of gender and sexuality under the constitution of South Africa; yet it is still not prohibited under the…

  • Charma du Plessis
2 min read
Illustration: Inge Snip
CONVERSION THERAPY

East Africa’s ‘lucrative’ conversion therapy industry

A six-month investigation reveals ‘degrading and discriminatory’ treatment at health centres in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

  • Lydia Namubiru, The Continent
  • Rael Ombuor
  • Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu
10 min read