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Roché Kester: Leading Gauteng’s LGBTI Desk

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Roché Kester speaking at Soweto Pride A passionate activist, poet and recent Feather Award-honoree, Roché Kester is heading up the Gauteng provincial government’s new efforts to better serve and protect its LGBTI residents. Kester was recently named Director LGBTI and Others in the Office of the Gauteng Premier and is responsible for finally putting together the province’s long-awaited LGBTI Desk (promised by Premier David Makhura as far back as 2014).

The provincial desk is thought to be the first of its kind in the country. Many in the LGBTI activism world will know Kester as the former Hate Crimes Manager at the Pretoria-based OUT LGBT Well-being over the past two years.

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