Women and HIV – Media Watch
Coverage on Lesego Motsepe’s death
The death of celebrated actress and activist Lesego Motsepe was received with great sadness by the entertainment industry and South Africans at large on Monday.
Motsepe died just three months shy of her 40th birthday and was discovered at her home in Randburg by her brother.
Pinky lives a positive life!
Pinky Tiro (65) is still going strong despite discovering 22 years ago she was HIV-positive.
First, this energetic community activist from Meadowlands, Soweto was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer.
Cop gave me HIV and kicked me out!
When the 27-year-old woman met a SAPS member who proposed marriage to her, she thought her dream had come true.
She told Daily Sun when they met in 2010 he aid he was about to get divorced from his wife.
Criselda back on air after health scare
Popular Metro FM talk show host Criselda Kananda caused a scare recently when she collapsed at an event in KwaZulu-Natal, but says the incident had nothing to do with her HIV status. This was after Criselda fainted on stage as she was the programme director at a gala dinner. She spent two days at an intensive care unit (ICU)of a private hospital in Durban.
She has been open about her HIV status for years, and has led different private and public sector campaigns relating to HIV/Aids awareness.
Speaking truth to power, from the World Bank to Mbeki
In many respects, the World Bank was a toxic environment, for a number of reasons that had as much to do with its organisational structure as the stressful demands of the job.
Typically, the working day started at 7am and would frequently end with a cocktail party for some visiting delegation. It would be past 10pm before I crawled into bed. Then up for a 4am flight to Bangkok with a change in time zones and a rigorous schedule of meetings. Two days later, it would be London, with a similar schedule, and then back to Washington.
