THE Department of Home Affairs is set to embark on a big campaign to educate its officials on the rights of lesbian‚ gay‚ bisexual‚ transgender and intersex (LGBTI) individuals.Minister Malusi Gigaba said he had also set up a task team made up of officials from his department and representatives of LGBTI communities, to look at legislative provisions that needed to be reviewed or clarified.He said "sensitivity campaigns" would be held across the country to ensure officials were sensitive to the rights of LGBTI community.This emerged on Tuesday following the minister’s meeting with representatives of LGBTI communities, during which problems that affect such communities were raised.Gigaba said of all the challenges raised in the meeting‚ the most shocking was an incident in which a same-sex couple was told to prove that they were gay when they approached one of the department’s offices to get married.He said the implicated officials would face disciplinary processes as there was no la...
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