In Africa in general, homosexuality is seen as an import from the Western World and against African culture. They also host the largest and the oldest gay and lesbian event in October every year, Johannesburg Gay Pride. It was a major controversy and he was forced to apologise.īesides all these problems being faced by the South Afican gay communities, they still remain the most gay friendly country in the whole of Africa. When I was young, unqingili (homosexual in Zulu language) could not stand in front of me I would knock him out'. When the law was adopted by parliament, he declared that “same sex marriage was a disgrace to the nation and to God. At this time Jacob Zuma was not yet the the president.
Leaders in South Africa are used to address such comments about homosexuality and ironically the country was the first one, in Africa, to legalise same sex marriges in 2006. That was South Africa’s Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini in January 2012 at a ceremony marking the defeat of the British Imperial forces by the Zulus. ‘Traditionally there was no people who engaged in the same sex relationships, there was nothing like that and if you do it you must know that you 'rotten”. Autor invitado: Tendai Mandimika (Sudáfrica)
