- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Public opinion in South Africa appears to be somewhat divided on LGBTQ+ issues, as evidenced by recent studies.
South Africa Surveys
Views on Transgender People
History
Homosexual activity in South Africa is legal.
Since Oct 9, 1998
Same-sex marriage in South Africa is legal.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in South Africa is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in South Africa is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Since Mar 15, 2004
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in South Africa is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in South Africa is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in South Africa is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since 1996
LGBT housing discrimination in South Africa is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since 1996
Serving openly in military in South Africa is legal.
Since May 8, 1996
Blood donations by MSMs in South Africa is legal.
Since May 20, 2014
Conversion therapy in South Africa is not banned.
Equal age of consent in South Africa is equal.
Since Dec 16, 2007
LGBT Rights by Province
View the LGBT laws in each individual province of South Africa.