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Church group protests against gays and lesbians in Zimbabwe
On Sunday, a group of protesters claiming to represent various churches vandalized the perimeter wall outside the offices of the Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe (GALZ) in Harare. ...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 17:55hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
CCC MP wants gays protected, Speaker thwarts debate in Parly
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator, Ms Sethulo Ndebele on Tuesday raised a motion in Parliament advocating for the adoption by the legislature of a law that protects the lesbians, gays, b...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 04:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Response to Bulawayo24 letter purporting to be from GALZ
Dear Editor, GALZ, An association of LGBTI people in Zimbabwe has been recently informed of a fabricated letter circulating online and on selected news platforms such as 'Bulawayo24' purportin...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 22:46hrs | 10 | by GALZ
UK's deportations deal with Zimbabwe putting lives at risk
In the four years since she arrived in the UK, 56-year-old Josephine Sipiwe Jenje-Mudimbu's life has shifted from one of hope to one of daily, grinding fear.Josy, as she's better known, is an ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 12 | by Raoul Walawalker for Open Democracy
Zimbabwe refuses to buckle under pressure from the lesbian, gay, bisexual community
ZIMBABWE has refused to buckle under pressure from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community to accept their predisposition.The local delegation led by Justice, Le...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:02hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe the new Cold War front
ON February 5, 2018 United States President Donald Trump wrote to the US Congress that he was extending sanctions on Zimbabwe by another year. This year President Joe Biden did the same.The gi...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:28hrs | 12 | by Nevanji Madanhire
'Zanu-PF only political party to embrace gays'
Zanu-PF is the only political party that managed to respond to concerns raised by the Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe (GALZ) in 2018.Ahead of the 2018 elections, GALZ approache...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 18:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean gay denied asylum in SA
A REPORT released recently by several civil society organisations has found evidence that LGBT refugees are being denied asylum in South Africa despite being "eligible for protection under internation...Published: 05 May 2021 at 15:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Cape Town consulate besieged as protesters demand gay rights
AN official at the Zimbabwe Consulate in Cape Town, who would not give his name, refused to sign a memorandum calling for gay rights that was delivered by about 20 people.They had marched from...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gays and Lesbians targets Zimbabwe universities, colleges
THE Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) has started a process of engaging universities and other higher learning institutions as part of a broader strategy to strengthen academic freedom of members o...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'BCC clinics do not discriminate patients'
Personnel at Bulawayo City Council (BCC) clinics attend sensitisation workshops to equip them with skills to treat all patients, including people with different sexual orientation and key populations,...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Transgender activist attacks Mnangagwa
A Bulawayo cross dresser and transgender activist Ricky "Rikki" Nathanson says President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a ruthless person who presided over the murder of 20 000 Zimbabweans during his time as M...Published: 08 May 2019 at 09:57hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
SA Church ordered to solemnise gay and lesbian marriages by court
The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has found that the Dutch Reformed Church's policy against solemnising same-sex marriages, diminished the integrity of gay congregants.Judges Sulette Potteril...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 14:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gays unveil scholarships
The Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) has unveiled a scholarship programme targeting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community.Dubbed Munhu!Munhu, the programme...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 21:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa shut door on gays
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his main rival, Nelson Chamisa, have both shut the door on gay rights, saying same-sex marriage remains banned in Zimbabwe.This comes after Zimbabwe's gays and...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gays praise Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has received rare praise from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community for abandoning his predecessor Robert Mugabe’s politics of discrimin...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 11:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Condom distribution to prisons sparks religious, moral debate
Alfred Kurai (not his real name) twitches uncomfortably as the "talk" begins. He says calling this an interview would make him feel dehumanised and uncomfortable. Kurai is a convict in a Zimba...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 15:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Media should advocate for key populations programming
Zimbabwe AIDS Network (ZAN) with support from Amplify Change hosted journalists for an engagement on pro-key populations budget, policy advocacy and analysis.According to NANGO the meeting set...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 07:53hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe is open for business but not open for Gay Rights
The new Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa spoke on LGBT equality subject for the first time as president, during an interview with CNN's Richard Quest at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Mnang...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 05:48hrs | 4 | by Thamie T
Gays appeal for equal rights
The Gays and Lesbian Association of Zimbabwe (Galz) is hoping that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government will break with the tradition of deposed ex-leader Robert Mugabe who subjected them t...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
7 000 sex workers in Bulawayo!
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care estimates that there are about 44 586 sex workers in the country aged between 15 and 49 years and nearly 7 000 of them operate in Bulawayo.According to th...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 04:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe's legacy
Robert Mugabe's resignation as President of Zimbabwe brings the curtain down on a political career which saw early successes ultimately wiped out by a litany of human rights abuses.President M...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 11:05hrs | | by Deprose Muchena
Gays and Lesbians raise alarm over stereotyping in Zimbabwe
THE Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) is engaging the clergy, lawyers, traditional leaders among other stakeholders to raise awareness on issues relating to their members to correct stereotypes abo...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 05:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gays delights in Mugabe's ouster
THE Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) lobby group has said it hopes President Robert Mugabe's resignation will end the brutality and hate of they suffered at the hands of the veteran leader for alm...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's human rights record under spotlight again
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party continues to hog the international limelight regarding its human rights record after the United States Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour yesterda...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman beaten, mutilated and raped for being lesbian
A woman in South Africa has been beaten, raped, mutilated and then set alight her crime being that she is a lisbian.Daily Sun reported that this was how heartless killers murdered Matshidiso "...Published: 13 Jan 2016 at 12:17hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Prophet Makandiwa supports Mugabe's stance on gays
A Zimbabwean self-proclaimed 'prophet' has spoken out in support of President Mugabe and his wishes to imprison gays for life, a ...Published: 07 Jan 2015 at 10:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pastors hit final nail in Makandiwa's coffin
UFIC to shutdown with the passing prophecy, of First Lady Grace Mugabe, cited as spiritual evidence to arrest Makandiwa and his close church officials. Explosive ...Published: 04 Apr 2014 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gays and Lesbians hits back at Prophet Makandiwa
Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (Galz) have launched a scathing attack on United Family International (Ufic) leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa following the ‘man of cloth's' vitriol attack on ho...Published: 02 Apr 2014 at 14:50hrs | 1 | by Jairos Saunyama
Gays & Lesbians' tribute to trans-gender advocate
Wednesday, November 20, was the International Transgender Day of Remembrance. Transgender people are those whose gender identity is different from the sex assigned at...Published: 21 Nov 2013 at 03:36hrs | | by Gays &Lesbians
Zim gays hit catwalk at drag queen contest
HARARE - And the winner is ... Ezmerald Kim Kardashian.That was the stage name for a young man who won the title of Miss Jacaranda at a drag queen pageant in Zimbabwe. He refused to give his r...Published: 24 Oct 2013 at 08:06hrs | | by AP - Gillian Gotora
Gays writes to Mugabe
The Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe (GALZ) yesterday welcomed President Robert Mugabe's renewed calls for peace but urged him to minority groups also enjoy the protection of the law....Published: 22 Apr 2013 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gays, Lesbians attack Tsvangirai for castigating same-sex marriage
The NewsDay reporta that Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (Galz) yesterday took a swipe at Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai for castigating same-sex marriage while addressing MDC-T supporters in Glen Vie...Published: 09 Mar 2013 at 05:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe asked to intervene on gay persecution
United States-based Human Rights Watch on Tuesday said it had written to President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai demanding an immediate stop to the persecution of members of the ...Published: 29 Aug 2012 at 14:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man to be prosecuted for distributing materials that promote homosexuality
Zimbabwean police have moved close to prosecuting Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) director, Chesterfiled Samba, after they accused him of distributing materials that promote homosexuality....Published: 22 Aug 2012 at 09:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man beheaded for being gay
A 23-year-old gay man in Kuruman, South Africa, was beheaded this past weekend following an argument about his sexuality and gender appearance.Makutle was attacked at his place of work in the ...Published: 13 Jun 2012 at 11:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Delegate Withdraws from Mr Gay World
The Mr Gay World Organisation has announced that Taurai Zhanje, the delegate from Zimbabwe has withdrawn from the competition due to ‘personal reasonsââ...Published: 26 Feb 2012 at 13:28hrs | | by Coenie Kukkuk
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