SABC1 'IT' GIRL, LERATO KGANYAGO FOR MZANSI PRIDE 2014
From the 1st till the 6th of December 2014, Africa will gather at its economic hub for the inaugural MZANSI Pride, to celebrate diversity in unity and challenge stigma. The event is expected to draw an audience coming from as far as Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and the various South African provinces. The brainchild of businessman and philanthropist, Cino Shearer, MZANSI Pride’s mandate is to ensure social cohesion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) persons into “main stream” society. This we will achieve by collaborating and working together with LGBTI organizations within the SADAC region. Moreover, MZANSI Pride recognizes the need to champion the struggle for the rights of all LGBTI persons living in Africa and to stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the thirty seven African states where homosexuality is deemed illegal in the eyes of the law. Mzansi Pride ...