Reply #103: ANC Youth League distances itself from Zuma's gay-bashing statement [View All]

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By Moshoeshoe Monare

The ANC Youth League - a staunch ally of ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma - has reacted to his Heritage Day gay-bashing statement, saying it was his personal view and not that of the ANC ... "If it is true that he has articulated what we have come to read about, it is his own articulation and not the ANC position and we stand by the ANC position, (which is) non-sexism, non-discrimination and equality. "Gay rights are human rights and that is what makes our constitution the most progressive in the world," Mbalula told the Cape Times ...

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