Lusanda Bill
31 May 2011
South Africa's ambassador to Uganda Jon Qwelane has been found guilty of hate speech by the Johannesburg Equality Court.
The court found that a cartoon in a newspaper column Qwelane used to write amounted to hate speech, and that both his article and the cartoon spread hatred and harm.
The article was published in July 2008 under the headline: "Call me names, but gay is NOT okay”.
He has been ordered to make an unconditional apology to the gay and lesbian community, and pay R100 000 to the SA Human Rights Commission.
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