Bye bye Minister

[danalwyn]

So, while I was mucking around with other things, like Somalia, and not paying attention, I missed that as an offshoot to politics as usual, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang of South Africa got fired last week. Tshabalala-Msimang was famous to a select group of people for being a staunch opponent of retroviral drugs. Her most famous statement was that AIDS could be treated by lemon skin, beet root, and raw garlic, made at a Toronto International AIDS Conference in 2006.

There may be a place for people like Tshabalala-Msimang, but Health Minister for a country where 21% of the country are infected with HIV is probably not it. Good-bye, good riddance, and please, let the door hit you on the way out.