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Simon Nkoli

Nkoli: The Vogue-Opera — it’s fierce, fabulous … and freaking fantastic

Maverick Life

Nkoli: The Vogue-Opera — it’s fierce, fabulous … and freaking fantastic

By Keith Bain

Being Simon Nkoli’s mother: Who will remember me?

South Africa

Being Simon Nkoli’s mother: Who will remember me?

By Welcome Mandla Lishivha

South Africans just wanna have fun (and fix the country)

South Africa

South Africans just wanna have fun (and fix the country)

By Mark Heywood

Maverick Life

‘If Hamilton and RuPaul’s Drag Race had a baby in South Africa’ — icon Simon Nkoli gets the glamour treatment

By Mark Heywood

Simon Nkoli’s fight for queer rights in South Africa is finally being celebrated – 24 years after he died

Magazine

Simon Nkoli’s fight for queer rights in South Africa is finally being celebrated – 24 years after he died

By Gibson Ncube

A life resurrected — an opera about Aids and the life of queer activist Simon Nkoli

South Africa

A life resurrected — an opera about Aids and the life of queer activist Simon Nkoli

By Mark Heywood

Whose struggle is it anyway? Lessons on intersectional activism from ‘Simon and I’

South Africa

Whose struggle is it anyway? Lessons on intersectional activism from ‘Simon and I’

By Malibongwe Tyilo

Joburg Pride: A Tale of Two Cities

South Africa

Joburg Pride: A Tale of Two Cities

By Rebecca Davis