Producers of controversial local film Inxeba (The Wound) have responded to threats which led to several screenings of the movie being cancelled, by laying a complaint with the South African Human ...

The invitation for the movie screening didn't specify which movie it was, hinting only that the subject was an "aspect of LGBTI life in southern Africa." Months prior, the trailer for the South ...

The Film and Publications Board (FPB) has confirmed that Inxeba (The Wound) is the first 'non-pornographic' film to get the X18 classification, a rating that is usually only given to hardcore porn. On ...

Conversations about where we stand on issues around cultural rites of passage, and the othering of certain bodies by these very practices that we laud and dare not problematise – because that would be ...

Johannesburg - Eastern Cape traditional leaders have vowed to “stop at nothing” to defend cultural Xhosa initiation and ensure the film Inxeba is not screened in South African cinemas. Protests led by ...

The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has ruled that the X-rating on the film Inxeba: The Wound can be lifted meaning the film can now be shown in local cinemas with an 18 age restriction pending ...

A gay love story set in an initiation school was bound to ruffle feathers. In the days before the opening night of the movie Inxeba (The Wound), the Man and Boy Foundation and the Congress of ...

"You must be joking," he said. "Look around. Think for a moment. It's the middle of the night, not a soul anywhere. In this city, at this time. Not a dog in the gutter. Empty. Except for this elephant ...

The North Gauteng High Court’s decision today to overturn the classification of local film Inxeba – The Wound as hardcore porn may be a victory for members of the ...

Inxeba is merely questioning the relevance, or even the effects, of reducing a human being to a trophy of manliness who must uphold this role for the rest of his life. Firstly, it is apparently ...

I have been gay for as long as memory serves me. I vividly remember spending the bulk of my formative years vacillating between denial and self-hate; from a young age I somehow knew that acting on my ...

Social media and internet forums function as an important space of contestation for issues relating to queer identities. This is evident in reactions to two fairly recent queer-themed African films, ...