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News and Events => People news => Topic started by: LostInTime on August 09, 2007, 08:26:00 AM

Title: South African AIDS activists outraged over axing of deputy health minister
Post by: LostInTime on August 09, 2007, 08:26:00 AM
International Herald Tribune (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/09/africa/AF-GEN-South-Africa-Minister-Fired.php)

South Africa's deputy health minister, one of its most respected women politicians, lost her job on the eve of the nation's Women's Day.

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Last month the bodies of Sizakele Sigasa and Salome Masooa, were found with fatal bullet wounds in a field in Soweto. Sigasa had been an activist for the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people's rights.