Why does SA not argue the merits of its own pioneering constitution for all Africans?
30 March 2023 - 05:00SA has a long and shameful record of failing to defend human rights abuses on the international stage. From former president Thabo Mbeki’s refusal to condemn Zimbabwe’s torture and unlawful detention of political dissidents to the present administration’s embarrassing flimflammery on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a series of ANC-led governments has opted for quiet diplomacy over doing the right thing.
The Ugandan parliament’s move against the LGBTQ community has rightly been described by the UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, as a deeply disturbing development that renders lesbian, gay and bisexual people criminals for simply being who they are.
Tragically, Uganda is not alone in its institutionalised prejudice. More than two dozen African countries have made it a crime to be gay, often casting homosexuality as a corrupting Western import, when of course it is nothing of the sort. A handful of African nations such as Botswana, Angola, Mozambique and Gabon have recently scrapped laws criminalising homosexuality, but far too many others, including Kenya, Cameroon, and Nigeria have stepped up the persecution.
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