Africa's first Pride march and the equality clause

In October 1990 about 800 people marched through Johannesburg in the first Pride parade in Africa, organised by the Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand and the anti-apartheid activist Simon Nkoli. Campaigners then won a clause banning discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in the interim constitution of 1994 and the final one of 1996, the first such protection in any national constitution.