# Manto is ill
On a more serious note, I read that Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, Minister of Health and after Dear Leader Mbeki, staunchest proponent of South Africa's embarassing HIV/AIDS non-policy has returned to hospital. She's been sick for a while, recently gave a press conference where she spouted crazy talk, and has now been readmitted into intensive care.
Funny how many of our high-ranking politicans suffer and eventually die from unspecified 'long illnesses'. Now I ain't saying nothing, and really, I have no idea what's wrong with her, but at the very least it raises the possibility; and it would be supremely ironic if she had AIDS herself.
Normally one ought to be sympathetic or respectful, but frankly, Tshabalala-Msimang deserves nothing but scorn. The scale of death and suffering and hardship that this obstinate woman and her stupid, ignorant, and backwards policies have wrought make the atrocities of half the world's war criminals look insignificant in comparison. Will she or her equally guilty boss ever be tried for crimes against humanity?
No matter what her affliction is, I don't care. Let her suffer on for years... only then might she begin to taste the suffering South Africa's millions of AIDS victims have experienced, and will continue to experience for years to come.
File under: politiek : {2007.02.22 - 00:03}
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