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Mbeki’s latest letter on Aids denialism ’tragic’, says Mark Heywood
▻http://702.co.za/articles/12024/mbeki-s-latest-letter-on-aids-denialism-tragic-says-mark-heywood

Former President Thabo Mbeki released what he calls a brief commentary on the question of HIV and Aids.

In the letter, he refers to his previous efforts to challenge assumptions about the infectious disease and the criticism he received for asking questions.

SECTION27’s Mark Heywood on Monday said that the letter did not offer an apology or show remorse for Mbeki’s policy position on Aids which threatened the lives of many South Africans.

> I think that Thabo Mbeki’s latest intervention on his approach to HIV/Aids is tragic, sad, flimsy and embarrassing.

> We knew it was inevitable that he would want to write on the controversy surrounding his Aids denialism.

> What we’re seeing today is a re-statement. It’s Mbeki saying ’I’m an Aids denialist, I was always an Aids denialist and still am one.

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We should be allies, not enemies, Gwede Mantashe | Mark Heywood
▻http://mg.co.za/article/2014-07-04-an-open-letter-to-anc-secretary-general

When we have our meeting, I will show you the volumes of failed correspondence, protests, meetings and submissions that usually precede a court case. We have whole files of letters to the Limpopo department of education. Last year, for example, we tried in vain for three months to have school meals restored to thousands of children in one education circuit of Limpopo. Eventually this only happened after we filed legal papers to get the children their rights to ­sufficient food.

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