Decriminalisation: The next mountain to climb

Friday, November 21, 2014

Rainbow people: BONELA activists during a previous campaign march

Barring an appeal by the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs within the statutory six weeks, the gay, lesbian and bisexual community will happily file the 10-year legal battle into their history books. As the dust settles from that battle, the community is bracing for an even tougher challenge, observes Mmegi Staffer, MBONGENI MGUNI

“Why would you want to regulate sex when there are so many other things in need of regulation? This is between two consenting adults. Under the current law where homosexual acts are illegal, how many cases have you actually heard of people being brought before court?”

Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) executive director, Cindy Kelemi asks the rhetorical questions, with a slightly bemused look on her face.

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Decriminalisation: The next mountain to climb

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