Qalakaliboli Dlamini, the Swaziland journalist dropped by
his newspaper after he attacked homosexuals in his column, has told his editors
he is glad he did it and would do it again.
And, he says he is ready to launch a public campaign
against homosexuals.
Qalakaliboli, until last week a regular columnist in the Times Sunday, told them, ‘I want to put
it on record that I did write the article and I did state it without fear that
I hate homosexuality with every fiber of hair on my body. Given the opportunity
I would gladly do it again and I am not at all apologetic for my choice of
words.’
He made his comments in an email sent to Times Sunday editor Innocent Maphalala
and Times of Swaziland group managing
editor Mbongeni Mbingo.
Qalakaliboli was ‘indefinitely’ suspended from the Times Sunday following what Maphalala called
an ‘unprecedented’ number of complaints from readers. The Times of Swaziland readers’ ombudsman has been asked to investigate
a complaint that Qalakaliboli broke the National Association of Journalists
code of ethical conduct on hate speech.
In his email, which Qalakaliboli copied to a number of
people and organisations, including Swazi Media Commentary, he wrote he would ‘stand
up against the spread of homosexuality in my country, and which I will do even
after I have stopped writing for the Times
of Swaziland.’
He added, ‘I will continue to stand up against
homosexuals and if need be, I will run a public anti-homosexual campaign.’
See also
‘TIMES’ GAY
HATE – CALL TO UMBUDSMAN
NEW ATTACK
ON ‘TIMES’ HATE SPEECH
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