Zimbabwean vice-president Constantino Chiwenga has said the government will block a scholarship offered for LGBT Zimbabweans by a pro-LGBT group called GALZ.
The GALZ scholarship, for a university education, has been available to LGBT Zimbabweans since 2018. However, on Friday the vice president issued a statement calling the scholarship a ‘direct challenge’ to the government.
Chiwenga went on to say: ‘Our schools and institutions of higher learning will not entertain applicants, let alone enrol persons associated with such alien, anti-life, un-African and un-Christian values which are being promoted and cultivated by, as well as practised in, decadent societies with whom we share no moral or cultural affinities.’
GALZ has previously said the scholarship seeks to provide equal access to state universities for LGBT people.
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