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Koketso Rathumbu Advocacy Specialist, GBVF Response Fund

Embracing pride and progress: Reflecting on 35 years of LGBTQIA+ advocacy in Africa

Koketso Rathumbu and esteemed panelists unpacked how violence still impacts the LGBTQIA+ community and how this marginalised population is affected by stigma and persisting…

Young woman with serious expression is looking at the camera. She is wearing a piece of red tape over her mouth as a sign of silent protest.  Photo: Getty Images

Have South Africans lost the ability to be offended or must we be intolerant of intolerance?

For us to have a truly reconciled country, those who practice hate speech need to be held to account for their actions

Joan Segale says even going to the shops can be traumatic because residents shout at sex workers, tell them they are not wanted and that they have HIV. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

The Joburg suburb ridding itself of ‘immoral’ sex workers — with pangas and bullets

Tasers, rubber bullets, pangas, dogs and snakes are used to rid a Jo’burg suburb of its ‘immoral’ sex workers

Brave: Marchillino Ambraal was gang-raped because of his sexual orientation, but did not report it because of the humiliation. After the gang members raped him a second time, Ambraal decided to take a stand and reported the crime (David Harrison/M&G)

A lone gay man says ‘enough’ to hate rapes in Cape wheatlands

After ​Marchillino Ambraal was gang-raped a second time and a friend was killed, he wants to see justice done

Tafadzwa Mahere* left Zimbabwe so that he could live freely as a gay man. He was raped last Saturday and reported it to the police. He later saw his rapist and told the police, but they asked how a man could have raped him. (David Harrison)

Cops can’t cope with hate crimes

Various organisations say officers are not yet able to carry out the policing aspects of speech and actions based on prejudice

Beware: Dating apps can be dangerous.

Gay men stalked via dating apps

Nasty incidents highlight an apparently increasing number of violent crimes related to men who use Tinder and Grindr

“The best way to move forward is that we need a mixed leadership. A leadership with different perspectives

After Brexit vote, hate crimes are on the rise

Britain’s Home Office reports that after the EU referendum in June 2016, hate crimes against Britons of ethnic or religious minorities rose by 29%.

Trump blamed ‘both sides’ for the deadly violence in Charlottesville

Congress sends anti-white supremacist measure to Trump

Rights groups argue that hate crimes are rising in the United States and have called on the president to address ‘domestic terrorism’.

The underlying message being pushed is a narrow, conservative ideology:  Be, heterosexual, traditional. Reject feminism. Reject LGBTQ rights. Photo: Antonio Bronic/Reuters

Queer rights activists make their presence known in Parliament

A group of civil society LGBTI rights organisations are challenging Parliament to help decrease the number of hate crimes nationwide

Mashadi Makwana of the Nedbank Foundation handing over a mobile library to a teacher and two pupils from Rammopodu Primary School.

Our progressive Constitution is not enough to protect LGBTQIA+ people

In 1996, it became illegal to discriminate against anyone based on their sexual orientation.

Protesters outside the Krugersdorp magistrate’s court

​Hate speech add-on compromises hate crimes Bill

Matthew Clayton, a member of the group which advised on the Bill, writes that it has value but poses challenges for civil society.

Death of a ‘nice

Death of a ‘nice, kind girl’ rocks a community

“Noluvo was good; she liked other people. She was so kind and wasn’t hurting anybody,” a man tells me from behind his fence in Driftsands.

Ally: Donald Trump’s Saudi trip may have implied his support for the Qatar blockade.

Swelindawo was not killed because she was lesbian, says deputy police minister

Deputy Police Minister Maggie Sotyu said at a public meeting in Belhar that ‘it had nothing to do with that’.

Ally: Donald Trump’s Saudi trip may have implied his support for the Qatar blockade.

Lesbian activist’s murder puts spotlight on hate crime; shocking new statistics

Victims are wary of going to the police as they often compound the trauma, research has found.

(Reuters)

Hate speech is not a hate crime

Activists fear, in the wake of the anger over racist comments on social media, that ill-considered legislation could have adverse consequences.

Straight people, why do you hate us so much?

I’m tired of being expected to show gratitude for rights that straight people don’t think twice about, writes Rebecca Davis.

Hate campaign suits Islamic State’s jihad agenda

Islamic State terrorists applaud when ignorant, bigoted Westerners turn their anger on Muslims.

(Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Marikana, Mayfair and ‘legitimate hate’

It takes nothing away from the Marikana massacre to remember that other organised, oppressive acts of violence are going unnoticed, says Loren Landau.

In this file photo African immigrants take part in an Annual Human Rights march in Tel Aviv to mark International Human Rights Day.

Three African migrants stabbed in Tel Aviv

An attacker has stabbed three Eritrean men in a Tel Aviv video store in what police said they were initially treating as a racist attack.