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South African rights groups have vowed to petition the United Nations and African Union over the latest ruling that the country’s Olympic 800-metre champion Caster Semenya cannot compete unless she takes hormone-suppressing drugs.
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Adam Catzavelos, the South African man who filmed himself while on holiday on a beach in Greece saying that it was “heaven on earth” as there were no black people present, has reached a settlement with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC).
In 1995 Robert Mugabe hit the headlines when he said gay people “behave worse than dogs and pigs”. That same year he used a speech during a national holiday to proclaim: “If you see people parading themselves as lesbians and gays, arrest them and hand them over to the police.”