Councillor (Cllr) Abdulhamied Gabier, of the ANC, has been sharply criticized when he said the city’s council is trying to promote Cape Town as ‘moffie city’, an offensive term roughly translated as ‘faggots’.

IOL portal reported yesterday (28 March) that mayor Patricia de Lille, of the Democratic Alliance party (DA), said ‘the councillor had laid into Cape Town with a string of insults, among them the anti-gay slur’.

Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu is speaking out against Uganda's so-called 'Kill the Gays Bill' which could be voted on any time by the country's Parliament.

'I am opposed to discrimination, that is unfair discrimination,' Tutu said this week in Nairobi, Kenya, where he is attending a meeting of the All Africa Conference of Churches.

Tutu is the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa and became a hero as a leader in the anti-apartheid movement in that country. In more recent years, he has been a leading pro-gay voice across Africa.

Gay Games organizers have responded to 'derogatory' comments by South Africa's Olympic committee that the world's largest fully inclusive athletics tournament isn't 'serious sport'.

Head of South African Sport Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC), Gideon Sam, reportedly mocked the Gay Games at the Sports Industry Summit in Johannesburg on 25 October.

He said SASCOC did not govern the event because the body was involved in the administration of 'serious sport' in South Africa.

South African Olympic archer Karen Hultzer has come out openly as lesbian during the games.

There had been speculation about Hultzer’s sexuality before London 2012 with her partner Tracey Kim Saunders telling Mambaonline that Hultzer is happy to be identified as a gay athlete.

But now 46-year-old Hultzer, born in Cape Town, has commented for the first time on her sexuality.

As South Africans celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 94th birthday the country’s LGBT communities call upon their leaders to take firm action against the rising tide of hate crimes.

Thousands of LGBT people protested throughout South Africa against their leaders’ silence and even complicity with the increasing hate based violence and crimes against lesbian, gay and transgender people.

The protests are organised by a coalition of LGBT groups and civil society organizations.

The trial of four men accused of killing a gay club owner in Cape Town, South Africa, has been postponed until 4 June, the City's Magistrate's Court decided on Thursday (26 April).

John Frederick Coetzee, 36, Achmat Toffa, 35, Fareez Allie, 29 and Kurt Erispe, 35 are all charged with the murder of Bruno Bronn.

Allie and Erispe were granted bail last month (March, 2012).

Bronn, 50, was found dead in his home on 7 February.

One of the four men accused of murdering gay club owner Bruno Bronn in Cape Town, South Africa, has been released on bail.

Fareez Allie, 29, was released on a bail of R5,000 ($660 €490) by the Cape Town District Court today (27 March).

Kurt Erispe, 35, was granted bail at a previous hearing, while the other two suspects charged with Bronn's murder, 36-year-old John Frederick Coetzee and Achmat Toffa, 35, have abandoned their applications for bail.

Four men appeared in court yesterday in connection with the murder of a gay club owner in Cape Town, South Africa.

Bruno Bronn, 50, was found dead in his home last Tuesday (7 February).

According to police, the owner of the famous Bronx nightclub, situated in the heart of the city's gay scene in Somerset Road, was found lying on his back on the floor with his hands tied with tape in front of him.

Friends and colleagues are in shock after the owner of a gay nightspot in Cape Town, South Africa, was found murdered yesterday.

Bruno Bronn, 50, was found dead in his home by his domestic worker shortly before 9am, the Cape Times reported.

According to police, the owner of the Bronx nightclub, situated in the heart of the city's gay scene in Somerset Road, was found lying on his back on the floor with his hands tied with tape in front of him.