One model estimates that 1 out 0f 5 of the economically active segment of the population is HIV positive.
Half a million new infections are projected for this year. Around 370,000 Aids related deaths will occur in 2008, that's 1014 people (a large high school) wiped out each day.
Right now about 650,000 South Africans have full blown Aids.
Meanwhile, based on the behaviour I am party to, a lot of South Africans think that South Africa is a country a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away. Perhaps they are part of that 1 million that no one is sure about?
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Y celebrates the life and times of Black Consciousness Movement leader, Steven Bantu Biko
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Lara Johnson Says:
September 12th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
Steve Biko, Speech in Cape Town, 1971
"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against."
Malcolm X
"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."
Malcolm X
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."
Frederick Douglass
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning."
Frederick Douglass
"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."
Frederick Douglass
"I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."
Harriet Tubman
"AIDS is a black depopulation virus"
US Ambassador Cameron Hume, 18 Oct 2002
"No Fucking Comment...Fuck You!"
Patricia de Lille, MP -- response to Amb. Hume
SA's HIV Population is 5.6 million. But it could be 7.6 million. Half a million new infections are projected for this year. Around 370,000 Aids related deaths will occur in 2008, that's 1014 people (a large high school) wiped out each day.
Nick van der Leek
"Aids does not exist"
Thabo Mbeki
'A shower can prevent you getting AIDS.'
Jacob Zuma
"The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself."
Malcolm X
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