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South Africa: Mixed response to former health minister's deathSouth Africa's former health minister, Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, died on Wednesday from complications related to a liver transplant she received in 2007. The news was greeted with a flood of tributes by her colleagues in the ruling African National Congress (ANC) for her devotion to the party and the struggle against apartheid. But members of South Africa's HIV/AIDS sector expressed mixed feelings about her controversial tenure as health minister from 1999 to 2008. Read the full article here. |