CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Navigaytion and Bronx are two iconic LGBT bars that have become quite renowned tourist attractions to the gay friendly city of Cape Town in South Africa. Yet recent police harassment may well show signs that notwithstanding South Africa’s all-inclusive pro-LGBT constitution, the authorities have yet to grasp that homophobia may well keep the tourists at bay -- especially when a Saudi prince gets beaten up in a nightclub by plainclothes police.
South Africa is unique in Africa and among very few countries in the world to protect sexual orientation and gender identity in its Constitution.
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Regarding the Sept. 16, 2011 incident, in the words of the club’s manager, Ari Nitzan: “A Saudi prince was in the club on Friday night, when the police barged into the club bringing the night to an abrupt end. The Saudi prince has become one of many loyal and regular customers at the club. The police shouted at everyone to get out. At this time the prince was sitting at the bar sipping his almost finished drink, when a plain clothed policeman rudely demanded that the unnamed Prince get up and leave the club immediately.”
The prince apparently replied: “I am just finishing my drink” -- not knowing what the fuss is all about, and as all the policemen were dressed in street clothes and not identifiable to the public as police officers.
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http://www.sdgln.com/news/2011/09/22/report-saudi-prince-beaten-plainclothes-police-gay-nightclub-cape-town-south-africa
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