Gay Oppression in South Africa

But we are not fighting just for an end to apartheid, but on two fronts. The second is closest to us. Reports have been received from Pretoria of persecution of "gay activists". A leader of the Dutch Reformed Church which is responsible for the ideological basis of apartheid, Eddit van Zyl, has stated that gay groups have no right to exist, and has recommended that the government exterminate them.

This position is not so far removed from the New Zealand government's stand on homosexuality which, it was stated recently at the National Gay Rights Conference, was a veiled form of fascism. At the same conference, a remit was passed condemning the tour - and encouraging gays to take a stand against it.