Onkemetse Pule and Lawrence Kwatata, BOTSWANA: Amplifying Africa's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) Voices

Onkemetse Pule and Lawrence Kwatata making history in Botswana

Onkemetse Pule and Lawrence Kwatata made history in Botswana on Friday when they appeared on the front-page of weekly tabloid, The Voice, to declare that they were in a same-sex relationship. The couple have become the first lesbians in the southern African country to go public about their sexual orientation. Same sex relations are illegal in Botswana and the couple risk prosecution and jail.


A brave couple who met through the pages of their favourite newspaper, will today carve their names in the history of civil rights in this country. Onkemetse Pule, 26, from Mahalapye and Lawrence Kwataka, 24, of Serowe met through the popular ‘Lets Get Personal’ dating service in The Voice


They are soul mates, head over heels in love and courageous enough to have agreed to this interview and become the first lesbian couple in Botswana to publicly declare their love.


They have been in the relationship for ten months and as they both say: “Have never been happier.” Now they want the world to know that they are two women who have found the ideal partner in one another. HERE

· Thanks to African Activist, sidebar
· Thanks to Onkemetse Pule and Lawrence Kwatata
· Thanks to The Voice, Botswana
· Thanks to Amplifying Africa's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) Voices