Home Affairs Minister, Malusi Gigaba
The Minister of Home Affairs was presented with the first annual Pretoria LGBTI Pride/GaySA Radio Human Rights Award for his recent decision to bar American gay-hate pastor Steven Anderson and his followers from South Africa.
His speech about the training the Department of Home Affairs (DOH) is doing to sensitise the DOH staff to dealing with diversity amongst South Africans was encouraging. Gigaba has not been without controversy - he recently fell foul of the Department of Finance when his staff were denied permission to travel business class with him, and he was the architect of South Africa's disastrous implementation of strict visa application conditions and unabridged birth certificates for traveling minors. Nonetheless hats off to him on the banning of Steven Anderson for hate speech (though some might say the banning contravened the rights for free speech - but hate speech surely cannot be tolerated).
Home Affairs Minister, Malusi Gigaba
The Minister of Home Affairs was presented with the first annual Pretoria LGBTI Pride/GaySA Radio Human Rights Award for his recent decision to bar American gay-hate pastor Steven Anderson and his followers from South Africa.
His speech about the training the Department of Home Affairs (DOH) is doing to sensitise the DOH staff to dealing with diversity amongst South Africans was encouraging. Gigaba has not been without controversy - he recently fell foul of the Department of Finance when his staff were denied permission to travel business class with him, and he was the architect of South Africa's disastrous implementation of strict visa application conditions and unabridged birth certificates for traveling minors. Nonetheless hats off to him on the banning of Steven Anderson for hate speech (though some might say the banning contravened the rights for free speech - but hate speech surely cannot be tolerated).