Bongkosi Ndima is the untry's first black Mr Gay World South Ai. He tak over om Louw Breytenbach who won the Mr Gay World 2021 tle October.
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THE FIRST GAY MARRIAGE SOUTH AI
A ernment that implemented and quantified s missn of separatens wh a radil fervor did not target homosexual dividuals until 1968, nearly twenty years after the apartheid's ceptn. A foc will be on the LGBT dividuals whose liv were affected by anti-homosexual legislatn durg the apartheid and their ntug fight to w equal treatment.
This study will exame the legalistic history of Lbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual life South Ai by explorg relevant legislatn and their effects on the liv of LGBT people. Origs of opposn towards homosexualy and history of homosexualy wh Ain society. Most nomatns of Christiany rejected homosexualy sce was emed the Bible to be unnatural and a s: "Levic 18:22 do not lie wh a man as one li wh a woman; that is ttable.
" One n argue that opposn towards homosexualy South Ai stems om relig tradn. There is evince that pre-lonial Ain societi accepted homosexualy on a suatnal basis. Homosexual acts were referred to as hlobongo amongst the Zulu and metsha amongst the Ngoni (Sanrs, 1997).
BONGKOSI NDIMA BE FIRST BLACK MR GAY WORLD SOUTH AI [PHOTOS]
A veat ncerng Ain society's views towards homosexualy, was that gay acts were ndoned, while lbianism was nmned (Sanrs, 1997). Acrdg to this relig iology, homosexualy was unnatural and immoral (Mar, 2008).
Therefore, is safe to assume that the natnalist ernment would have taken an anti-homosexualy stance, which would have fluenced policy. In keepg wh the grandse rhetoric of Aikaner natnalism, the apartheid ernment believed that if South Ai wanted to avoid the fat of ancient Rome, and Greece, mt mata s Christian pury and avoid homosexual bchery, sce sexual viance would lead to the downfall of South Ai (Retief, 1995). Homosexuals were also seen as child molters and this rhetoric was ed to pass the Immoraly Act amendments of 1968.
Experienc of Homosexual people South Ai. Homosexualy was a mon occurrence the gold m of South Ai durg the 1950s and 1960s (and even now) (Dunbar Moodie, Vivienne Ndatshe and Brish Sibuyi, 1988). Although the men argued that they turned to homosexualy as a last rort, some chose to extend their stay at m rather than return home orr to be wh their "me wiv".