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Criminalising homosexuality: a threat to human rights

If Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill is passed into law, the implications for LGBT people, and for the rights of everyone across Africa are ‘horrific’, writes Sokari Ekine. ‘Utterly inhumane’, the bill violates all African Union and International human rights legislation and treaties to which Uganda is signatory, says Ekine, but if it were to be passed, the chances are strong that some of 38 African countries criminalising same-sex relationships would attempt to copy it. Can a new book ‘Urgency Required: Gay and Lesbian Rights are Human Rights’ help to prevent legislation that threatens to cast homosexuals as ‘illegal beings’ rather than human beings?

Statement by Minister of Arts and Culture

4 March 2010

Newspaper reports on my presence at the “Innovative Women” art Exhibition have been mischievous, deliberately misleading and avoiding the facts.

In August last year, I was invited to speak at the “Innovative Women” Art Exhibition at Constitution Hill. Upon arrival at the Exhibition, I immediately saw images which I deemed offensive. The images in large frames were of naked bodies presumably involved in sexual acts. I was particularly revolted by an image called “Self-rape”, depicting a sexual act with a nature scene as the backdrop. The notion of self-rape trivialises the scourge of rape in this country.

Jansen warns SA is 'on the precipice'

President Jacob Zuma initiating a national dialogue on morals is like the AWB calling for a country-wide debate on racism, said Professor Jonathan Jansen, vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State (UFS).

He was speaking at a breakfast briefing for the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) on Thursday morning. Jansen's public address, titled The Politics of Forgiveness: How I See South Africa's Future, was his first as president of the SAIRR, to which he was elected last year.

Top court refuses to hear gay couple's case

Blantyre - Malawi's constitutional court on Tuesday refused to hear the case of a gay couple arrested for "gross indecency" after they had held the nation's first public same-sex wedding ceremony.

Zuma pushes for debate on national moral code

Using one's own culture to judge others is unconstitutional, President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.

Opening the National House of Traditional Leaders, Zuma used the opportunity to call for a debate on the "issue of a national moral code".

"I've said I'm going to initiate a national conversation on the moral code, on our values as a country," he said.

"We say we are united in diversity. That's what we say. We need to unpack the diversity. What do we mean when we say this.

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