My Mother Was Killed For Being HIV+
Mandisa Dlamini returned to her community in South Africa to meet her mother's killers
In 1998 Mandisa Dlamini's mother Gugu was brutally killed by neighbours when she revealed she was HIV positive on the radio. Her murder in Durban had a powerful impact in South Africa, and Gugu's name became synonymous with the fight to reduce the stigma and misunderstandings around HIV/AIDS. Mandisa was just 13 at the time, but over a decade later she started the Gugu Dlamini Foundation in her mother's name and went back to their old community to apologise to her mother's killers and work with the women and children there. Mandisa told Jo Fidgen how being diagnosed with HIV affected her mother.
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