South Africa National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza on June 17 swore in lesbian feminist Palomino Jama as a new MP.

Muhsin Hendricks killers being tracked In response to a Briefly News inquiry, Nelson Mandela Bay police spokesperson Captain Sandra Janse Van Rensburg said investigations were ongoing.

Muslim leader Muhsin Hendricks, 58, was attending a wedding in Haley Place, Bethelsdorp, Gqeberha, on February 15 when he was gunned down in cold blood, which many believe was a targeted hit.

Who was Imam Muhsin Hendricks? Muhsin Hendricks was born in 1967 in Cape Town and raised in a Muslim household. He married and started a family with a woman before coming out as gay in 1996.

Hundreds of people in rainbow colors gathered on Saturday in South Africa’s tourist magnet Cape Town to honor the world’s first openly gay imam, who was killed last month. Muhsin Hendricks, who ran a ...

Scores of people gathered to honour the life of the first openly gay imam, Muhsin Hendricks, at the Pride Festival, Cape Town's largest LGBTQIA+ event. Known for the celebration of queer rights, the ...

Those were the foundations of Muhsin Hendricks’s 30-year ministry, which over time provided meeting places, a mosque, constant reassurance and two human-rights foundations to defend Muslims torn ...

Muhsin Hendricks, well known as the first openly gay Muslim imam, was fatally shot in South Africa last Saturday in what supporters are calling a targeted assassination.

On 15 February 2025, Imam Muhsin Hendricks was shot dead by two gunmen in the South African city of Gqeberha. Known to many as the world’s “first openly gay imam”, Imam Muhsin’s murder has ...

Picture: Supplied SOUTH Africa’s first openly gay Imam, Muhsin Hendricks, was gunned down in Bethelsdorp, in Gqebera, on the morning he was to officiate in the interfaith weddings of two couples.

Imam Muhsin Hendricks, 58, was fatally shot around 10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 15 in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty The first openly gay Imam was ambushed and killed on his ...