LGBTIQ+ Rights Watch: February 2023
mambaonline.comOUT LGBT Well-being and MambaOnline publish a monthly overview of reported LGBTIQ+ rights violations, including hate speech, in South Africa.
We also look at the status of cases making their way through the criminal justice system. Here is our summary for February 2023. In early February, LGBTIQ+ residents of Johannesburg learned that the man sworn into the position of the city’s mayor is a representative of the fervently queerphobic Al Jama-ah political party.
Alarmingly, Mayor Thapelo Amad was voted into power by councillors from the ANC and EFF, parties that claim to be supporters of the rights of the LGBTIQ+ community.
Amad was also personally congratulated by ANC Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi at his swearing-in ceremony. It was revealed that transgender people in the North West province are having to travel long distances to access hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
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