Health MEC's wife slammed over homophobic comments
28 June 2017
Durban – Civil rights organisations have lashed out at recent comments by the wife of KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo for calling homosexuality "evil".
Nono Dhlomo was addressing the launch of youth friendly services at Durban’s Cato Manor Clinic where she urged government to bring back religious studies in schools, calling homosexuality "just evil spirits".
"All these problems that are facing our children is the devil’s work, our kids need prayers to be protected from all the negative energies facing them," said Dhlomo, who is employed by the US-funded organisation, Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health (MatCH), and seconded to the Department of Health to support school health services.
Several organisations have called on her to retract her comments immediately, calling it "irresponsible and shocking".