LGBT rights in South Africa

===Politics, law and activism===
The LGBT community in South Africa has a varied history of activism and representation in civil society, and all that pertains to social justice and the struggle for human rights as celebrated in February through [[LGBT History Month]]; [[Edwin Cameron]] and [[Kathy Satchwell]] being prominent judges of the [[Constitutional Court of South Africa]] and the [[High Court of South Africa]] respectively, including leading legal scholar [[Pierre de Vos]].

There are active and visible LGBT student organisations at South African universities, including the [[University of the Witwatersrand]], the [[University of Cape Town]], the [[University of Stellenbosch]], the [[University of Johannesburg]] and the [[University of the Western Cape]], amongst others.

[[Simon Nkoli]], [[Zackie Achmat]] and [[Funeka Soldaat]] are some of the more prominent LGBT rights activists in South Africa.

There have also been a number of LGBT politicians in the [[Parliament of South Africa]] and cabinet: [[Lynne Brown]] as Minister for Public Entreprises in [[Jacob Zuma]]'s Cabinet (and also served as interim [[Premier of the Western Cape]] in 2008-2009), [[Zakhele Mbhele]] as Shadow Minister of Police, [[Mike Waters (politician)|Mike Waters]] as the Opposition's Deputy Chief Whip from 2014 to 2019, MP [[Marius Redelinghuys]] and [[Ian Ollis]] as Shadow Minister of Labour from 2014 to 2017.