A Namibian court has struck down the country’s colonial-era laws criminalising same-sex relationships, in a victory for the LGBTQ community. Image: Hildegard Titus, AFPA Namibian court has struck down the country’s colonial-era laws criminalising same-sex relationships, in a victory for the LGBTQ community. Image: Hildegard Titus, AFP
“We are not persuaded that in a democratic society such as ours… it is reasonably justifiable to make an activity criminal just because a segment, maybe a majority, of the citizenry consider it to be unacceptable,” the judges wrote.The judgement overturns rarely enforced laws dating back to 1927, which Namibia inherited from the colonial era but maintained after gaining independence from South Africa in 1990.
While a handful of African countries have legalised same-sex relationships, South Africa remains the sole African nation which allows gay marriage, legalised in 2006.
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