Johann Els (right) and his late husband Hannes Human who died in Tanzania The Democratic Alliance Rainbow Network has slammed the South African government for failing to assist a gay widower whose husband died in Tanzania. Last week, MambaOnline reported that when Johann Els’s spouse of 16 years unexpectedly died on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar in August last year he was faced with obstruction and discrimination by the authorities, fueled, he says, by homophobia.
Officials refused to accept him as the next of kin because the country does not recognise same-sex marriages or relationships and delayed the repatriation of Hannes Human’s body.