Tag Archives: South Africa

Women24 reports from South Africa: We’ve heard of blind dates – but the thought of marrying someone the first time you get hitched to them is a little crazy, isn’t it? As part of a reality wedding show, Lloyd Kandlin and Shane Everts came face to face for the first time on their wedding day. The couple got hitched on …

From his coming World Remix project.

South Africa, the only nation on the continent with full LGBT equality, celebrated gay pride this weekend in Johannesburg with a march meant to draw attention to persecuted gays across Africa. Organisers said more than 18,000 people took part in the protest in the economic capital of South Africa, the only country in the continent which allows same-sex marriages. On …

After just a few more hours we won’t have to hear about soccer for another four years. Of course, there’s one aspect of the sport that isn’t entirely boring.

Several readers have written to note that Sunday’s World Cup final will be between Holland and Spain and will be played in South Africa. All three nations grant full marriage equality rights to their LGBT citizens. That’s pretty cool, eh? UPDATE: A reader in Italy sends us his map of this year’s World Cup participants and the status of marriage …

The USA team just beat Algeria 1-0, moving them on in the World Cup playoffs. Apparently this is a very big deal. Landon Donovan scored in the first minute of stoppage time off a rebound, advancing the United States to the second round at the World Cup with a 1-0 win over Algeria. With the U.S. perhaps three minutes from …

A South African doctor has invented a female condom barbed with sharp teeth. The device is meant to be worn by women as a rape deterrent. According to Human Rights Watch, South Africa has one of the highest rape rates in the world, and many women in the country live in constant fear of being attacked. One South African doctor, …

South Africa faces more racial turmoil after the murder of white supremacist Eugene Terrablanche, whose funeral was attended by hundreds. Recently white supremacist politician Andrie Visagie caused a scene during an interview on national television, storming off the set and threatening a young black female guest on the show. Watch this.

Copyranter reports that a South African ad agency is using Ricky Martin’s coming out to plug their line of tear-proof mascara. Our tactical ad was an immediate response to the high level of local and international coverage given to this piece of showbiz news last week. We wanted to offer young female fans a quirky, tongue in cheek solution to …

JMG readers Vivian Cummins and Erney Breytenback write to let us know that their December wedding in South Africa is the first same-sex union ever to be noted in the wedding announcements section of the Irish Times. Published on Saturday: Vivian Cummings and Erney Breytenbach were married at their holiday home in Hermanus, South Africa, by the Reverend Pieter Oberholzer, …

South African champion sprinter Caster Semanya, who rocked the sports world this summer when she was revealed to be intersex, will be allowed to keep the gold medal she earned at the world championships. Semanya is waiting for a further decision on whether she may continue to compete as a woman.

This cruel billboard mocking Caster Semanya was posted by a South African strip club chain. Ad Week reports: Not surprisingly, the billboard drew complaints, at which Teazers owner Lolly Jackson scoffed at length. He first said the Semenya situation was “the furthest thing from my mind” when he made the ad. Then he added: “I do not want anyone coming …

Hugh Masekela, Don’t Go Lose It, Baby, 1984. Yesterday’s post about Mory Kante reminded me of this huge hit from South Africa’s Hugh Masekela, who first charted in 1968 with his Grammy-winning #1 pop instrumental smash Grazing In The Grass, one of my favorite tracks from that era. Cowbells! The next year Friends Of Distinction covered Grazing and their almost-as-good …

Days after being outed worldwide as being intersex, South African world champion sprinter Caster Semenya has been placed on a suicide watch. The Daily Star quoted officials as saying that psychologists are caring the 18-year-old round-the- clock after it was claimed tests had proved she was a hermaphrodite. Leaked details of the probe by the ­International Association of ­Athletics Federations …

Gender tests of world champion South African sprinter Caster Semenya reveal that she is intersex. According to the results of tests ordered by the International Amateur Athletics Foundation, Semenya has no uterus, no ovaries, and internal male testes producing high levels of testosterone. The IAAF says, “This is a medical issue and not a doping issue where she was deliberately …

As she awaits the results of her “gender testing” at the hands of track and field officials, world champion South African sprinter Caster Semenya has been given a girly-girl makeover for a magazine cover meant to “silence her critics” who claim she’s a man. Via Yahoo Sports: For the shoot Semenya sported a less ambiguous hair style, a designer black …

Well, you knew the Christian right just had to weigh on the situation faced by South African sprinter Caster Semenya. Some Jeebus-based track and field organization named 4 WINDS bleats: The liberal San Francisco-based National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC) says the IAAF should “stay out of Caster Semenya’s pants”. “Your efforts to make champion Caster Semenya ‘prove’ she is a …

The trial of three men accused of the murder and gang-rape of lesbian South African soccer star Eudy Simelane has begun. Eudy Simelane loved football. In other countries the 29-year-old who rose through the ranks to become captain of the women’s national football team would have been feted as a star. In South Africa it cost her her life. The …

Tests have revealed that South African sprinter Caster Semanya, who was accused of not being female after blowing away the competition at the track and field world finals, has three times the normal level of testosterone in her system. This does not necessarily prove that she has been doping as some women naturally have such a result. But very interestingly, …