International Herald Tribune

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.