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A dad from Bolton has told how he has been left stranded in South Africa due to the outbreak of a new coronavirus variant.

A scene from I Am Samuel, the closing night film

The Engage Men’s Health clinic in Joburg says its specialist HIV doctor can manage more complex cases

The 13th annual Feather Awards took place last Thursday at the Market Theatre in downtown Johannesburg. And what a show it was!

The 13th Feather Awards was a celebrity-packed celebration of all things African and queer and featured a surprise message from President Cyril Ramaphosa.

The cast of Love! Valour! Compassion! (Photo by Rina Gertzen)

Government, civil society and EU representatives will be discussing how to ensure equality for transgender and intersex South Africans at a historic event in Johannesburg this week.

As South Africa marked Pride Month, Limakatso Puling was shot dead in Durban

The first Pride March in Africa took place in Johannesburg in 1990. (Pic: David Penney/Donne Rundle Collection/GALA Queer Archive)

To celebrate Johannesburg Pride Month, Apple Music has enlisted three South African artists to take over their flagship Pride Playlists: Strike A Pose, RESIST!, and Love Her, Lover.

Zimasile Zubair Shabangu was murdered in a suspected hate crime in Johannesburg

left the SNP £300,000 in her will.Details of the cash boost come at a time when the party’s finances are under scrutiny as income from membership fees dropped during the pandemic.Estelle Brownrigg was born in South Africa but later worked as a pharmacist in London, where she met her husband Thomas Brownrigg.The couple lived in ­Johannesburg, Brussels and Canada before settling in ­Scotland around 2012.Neither Estelle nor her late husband had any children and it’s not known if they have any

The Department of Home Affairs has again been accused of discriminating against LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers, this time a gay Ugandan couple.

Lehlogonolo Machaba, Tholang Motshumi and Yaya Mavundla photographed by Terra Dick

Anna Marie de la Fuente More often than not, true stories are infinitely more interesting and continue to resonate now.

MADDS is one of the acts we’re excited about at Just Jared, and we want to give readers a chance to exclusively get to know her even better!

Johannesburg queer artist Baba Ganoosh and friends recently took to the waves for a mermaid-themed collaborative photoshoot to celebrate Pride Month.

Naman Ramachandran Producer Tendeka Matatu’s London and South Africa-based production company Ten10 Films is expanding and rebranding as Ten10 Entertainment.The Ten10-produced neo-noir thriller “Cold Harbour” is currently streaming on Netflix.The name change reflects the outfit’s rapidly growing global slate of original series and film projects, which will be overseen by new head of development Jafta Mamabolo, an actor, writer, director and producer from Johannesburg.Based out of South Africa,

Pride Month commemorations are clearly a trigger for religious bigots in South Africa. A meme suggesting that Pride Month is a demonic celebration has been shared by a longstanding Christian homophobe and allegedly by a youth pastor.

2 min read In recognition of Pride Month, a world-renowned Christian school in South Africa has flown the rainbow flag from the top of the school’s bell tower. St John’s College in Johannesburg is a world-class Christian, African school founded in 1898 and for the second year running the school has raised the rainbow flag.

Students at St John’s College Christian boys’ school raising the rainbow flag

Aubrey Boshoga is the 11th LGBTIQ+ person murdered in the last few months

Dozens of members of the LGBTIQ+ community gathered at Johannesburg’s Constitution Hill on Wednesday night for a moving candlelight vigil to honour the victims of hate.

Louw Breytenbach is Mr Gay World South Africa 2021

Naman Ramachandran “Luther” star Idris Elba will host the Africa Day Concert, an event which is a partnership between him, MTV Base and YouTube.The virtual concert, which will be held on Africa Day (May 25), is set to be a pan-African event, with artists performing on multiple stages from Lagos to Johannesburg in an event that will be streamed to a global audience on YouTube and broadcast across MTV channels.Performers include South Africa’s Elaine, one of the continent’s most-streamed artists,

Dimakatso Mathetha was a proudly LGBTIQ+ woman

ACDP supporters in Cape Town (left) and LGBTIQ+ activists in Johannesburg (Facebook)

The longstanding FADER Mix series presents new, exclusive DJ mixes from our favorite artists and producers. As one half of JazziDisciples, Johannesburg-based producer and DJ Mr.

Q is a new queer networking event in Johannesburg

The late Dr Sindi van Zyl

Christopher Vourlias When Joel Phiri and his partners at Known Associates Entertainment began financing “uBettina Wethu,” the South African remake of the megahit Colombian telenovela that inspired the ABC series “Ugly Betty,” the Johannesburg-based producer says, “We talked to anybody that would listen.”That those talks would involve both local and global streaming services was a given.

A post shared by Ashley Judd (@ashley_judd)The doctor at the Johannesburg hospital, she said, "was super at stabilizing my leg with the external fixator until the massive soft tissue damage and swelling went down so that I could have the Big Operation. What he did was significant and I am forever in his debt."On Feb.

Bharat Mahajan, a 28-year-old mental health services manager working on the frontlines of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, was on Sunday crowned Mr Gay New Zealand 2021.The winner of Mr Gay New Zealand will have the chance to represent the country at the Mr Gay World competiton that is scheduled to take place in Johannesburg later this year.Mahajan from the town of Thames was judged the winner at the Ending HIV Big Gay Out event, just hours before Auckland went into a level three lockdown

Zara McDermott has revealed she and her Made In Chelsea boyfriend Sam Thompson won't be wasting any time next year as they've booked a romantic safari trip to Johannesburg in April. The loved-up duo, who recently confirmed they are officially back together, will be staying at Chitwa Chitwa in South Africa for four days in the spring.

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks streamers Sundance Now and UMC have inked a deal for the North American, Caribbean, Canadian, and UK rights to South African horror series Dead Places.

Rangers boardroom When Dave King suddenly resurfaced as the Pied Piper on Tuesday it’s fair to say the directors he left behind were far from amused by the former chairman’s latest bull in a china shop cameo.