Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula:
While the people of South Africa might not be completely ready for the change, the same might be said of much of the U.S. when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act and we seem to be getting by all right on that count.
"In breaking with our past... we need to fight and resist all forms of discrimination and prejudice, including homophobia."South Africa broke from the apartheid part of its past when I was already a highschool senior -- which you'll have to trust me that it wasn't all that long ago -- and now we see it today becoming the fifth country in the world to enshrine marriage equality into law. Huzzah for a progressive South Africa.
While the people of South Africa might not be completely ready for the change, the same might be said of much of the U.S. when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act and we seem to be getting by all right on that count.
