CHIEF NGALONKHULU SLAMS GAYS, LESBIANS

SIMUNYE – Chief Ngalonkhulu Mabuza, who doubles as a senator, has slammed the LGBTIQ community.

The senator made the statement last week Friday during the closing of the three-day Senators Retreat held at the Simunye Country Club. Mabuza, who is a Chief of Mafutseni Umphakatsi, said the LGBTIQ were not supposed to be given preferential treatment in the country’s hospitals like everyone else, adding that their actions had no moral compass according to the country’s traditional principles. LGBTIQ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender intersex and queer. The chief used a term which cannot be repeated by this publication due to its defamatory nature. He made this startling statement after a presentation by the Executive Director of the National Emergency Response Council on HIV/AIDS (NERCHA), Khanya Mabuza. The focus of the presentation was the organisation’s current state of affairs in relation to the implementation of programmes aimed at fighting HIV/AIDS.

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Some of the senators who were present during the event were Senate President Pastor Lindiwe Dlamini, her Deputy Ndumiso Mdluli, Tony Sibandze, Isaac Magagula, Mkhululi Dlamini, Leckinah Magagula, Sylvia Mthethwa, Prince Magudvulela and Prince Mphatfwa to mention a few. “Yini kepha, babitwa batsiweni labatsandzana bodvwa? What do you call these people who get involved in same sex relationships? The country’s laws do not recognise such people,” said the senator, much to loud laughter from his colleagues. He was directing the question to Mabuza with regard to the mitigation plans put in place to accommodate all people from different walks of life in the rolling out of HIV/AIDS treatment.

The senator wanted to know if the people involved in same sex relationships were also benefitting from the treatment programmes being implemented by NERCHA. Quizzed about the statement, the senator laughed it off, although indicating that it was a sensitive matter. “Let us talk about it some other time, I know it is a sensitive matter,” he briefly said. His colleague, Senator Leckinah, said educational forums were still needed to educate them on the use of appropriate words regarding such matters. “I am not against his statement but I believe everyone has a right to health and education as part of the lessons we got during the retreat. We also need to change our attitudes when it comes to people’s choices as they have the right to also choose how they live,” she said.

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