ANTI-GAY BILL SUPPORTER THREATENS SA
One of the leading advocates of the horror Ugandan anti-gay bill has threatened a boycott of South African businesses should the appointment of homophobe Jon Qwelane as ambassador to Uganda be reversed.
In a statement published by the Independent newspaper in Uganda, Pastor Martin Ssempa urges President Jacob Zuma “not to jeopardise Uganda/South African relations” by cancelling Qwelane’s mooted appointment as High Commissioner to Uganda.
Describing Zuma’s decision as “wise”, Ssempa urges the president “not [to] listen to the homosexual extremists who are demanding that you disqualify him…”
He adds: “We would like to say that Mr. Jon Qwelane[’s] views of understanding the importance of a traditional family are in tandem with Uganda’s society where sodomy is a crime against the order of nature.
“South Africa needs an envoy who understands Uganda’s societal views, and does not place the expansion of sodomy as the top agenda of his foreign policy. Therefore the cancelling of Mr. Jon Qwelane[’s] appointment due to pressure of homosexuals in South Africa threatens the delicate and good relationships between Uganda and South Africa.”
In the statement, Ssempa openly threatens South African corporate interests. “The de-selection of Mr. Jon Qwelane and sending to Uganda someone who pleases the homosexual groups in South Africa threatens the good social standing of these companies in light of our nation’s values. You need to carefully weigh what is South Africa’s strategic interest in our nation and region. Is it business or sodomy?
“Cancelling Mr. Jon Qwelane[’s] appointment and sending someone else due to the pressure of the homosexuals will trigger a widespread civil society protest which stands to affect the South African businesses in Uganda. This may include the boycotting of your businesses as a means of sending our message across,” he writes.
Ssempa has been a fervent supporter of the proposed anti-gay legislation before Uganda’s parliament, actively promoting the bill to the public and politically lobbying for its passing. He was recently criticised for showing explicit sexual imagery, including depiction of extreme fetishes between men, during a press conference to rally support against homosexuality.
Qwelane, who has is facing charges in the Equality Court for writing a homophobic article in the Sunday Sun in 2008, has not yet been officially appointed by President Zuma but an announcement is expected soon.
….. If Zuma had any integrity at all he would drop Qwelane, pull all SA business out from the disgrace that is Uganda, and tell them to sod off until this horrendous bill is dropped.
Sadly, that is wishful thinking. African leaders don’t have integrity ….
Ssempa = bigot. The insolent bigot!
The audacity!
MTN et al received their nice letters informing the investor relations departments of this sordid attack, and the Director General of the DIRC has also been notified in detail.
Now?. Mpfh, Zuma and integrity in one sentence. What a joke. If he had integrity, Qwelane’s name wouldn’t even have made the shortlist in the first place. I say again what I said before the election. Zuma is a dangerous man. He is a sly man. He says the “right things” to the public, and does little about it, but work slyly behind the scenes to get his REAL work done. This has been proven over and over and over again. He made a deal with Shaik to take the fall for him, promising to get him out when he is president, which he did. And now he will even pardon De Kock, to shut up the “whities” when he pardons Shaik too – you had one of yours now I have one of mine.
Look at all the close friends he appoints to high jobs.
Look at how he keeps mum about Malema when he stirrs up the youth, and future of this country to levels of war and killings. That is his REAL aganda
Zuma is a traditionalist. If you read between the lines you can clearly see his real agenda slipping through – like the comments he made about hitting a gay man. He works with a plan, slowly almost unnoticed, he starts putting the right people in the right places to force the country into submission, to “return to the roots of the zulus” like the rest of Africa does, where nothing outside that traditions are tollerated. And if you do not agree, they will kill you. Look at the state of Africa. A bunch of animals trying to rule. Killing each other because they do not believe the same things.
I am very very very afraid for gays, not only in Uganda, but Africa at large. If we think we have won with our right to marry and constitution, we are fooling ourselves. Slowly but surely, Zuma works to change all this. And I can tell you today that our so called freedom and rights as gays and also as south africans are merely a temporary thing. A stepping stone to reach the end.
As for this homophobic asshole. He OBVIOUSLY had to threaten us with this, he was probably instructed to do so, to give Zuma a “valid” excuse to appoint Qwelane that no one can dispute, because “the business is more important”. Just like De Kock is the “valid excuse” for Shaik to be pardoned. See the trend, master of lies and disguises as president.
Zuma, and his followers – and the presidents that follows him, will bring this country to its knees. They think they are doing it subtly, but are not smart enough to see how rediculous they are. And it gets worse and worse and worse, every day.
And there is nothing you and I can do about it, because like the rest of Africa’s brutal leaders, he has managed to fool the majority. That is the african way. Look how Zimbabwe, even in their absolute worst of times, where they see each other die of hunger, they STILL vote for Mugabe. African loyalty… Look how they stand behind their leaders, look how even their youth are brainwashed into “even if he IS guilty, we don’t care (read – even if he steals from us) we STILL want him as president and we’ll KILL anyone who stands in outr way.
THAT is the REAL future of the “rainbow nation”
Who, prey tell, does he think will really suffer by boycotting South African goods? South Africa, or uganda?
Quelle Surprise…. Aaah… the gay issue. Bound to get any bigot with a political agenda a very wide audience. Just a pity that African politics are so hung up notions of out dated fascism that they cannot see the beauty of this diverse continent and ALL it’s people. How much more of this same old boring anti-gay tripe can we listen to. I suggest that this pastor goes back to church and meditates on some of the most important tenets of his religion, such unconditional love and humanity. It sickens me that this person will bathe in the glow of attention just by the mere fact that he supports something hateful and unjust. How very sad that Africa seems to forget what irrational hate can do and the hard lessons we have learned from our horrible past.