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Silence quietly shatters in Soshanguve
Community opens up about HIV/AIDS at dialogue event
Community members join hands to break the silence
Aug 27, 2008 – Breaking the silence by telling a roomful of people that you’re HIV-positive, in a community that still vilifies those who are positive, requires an enormous amount of courage.
This is precisely what happened today in Soshanguve, a large township outside Tshwane, when members of the community convened as part of the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Community Conversation series. The series has visited a number of communities throughout the country to discuss the issues surrounding HIV/AIDS.
The aim of the Community Conversations is to provide a safe space and platform for people to discuss the particular challenges they face around HIV/AIDS and to try to find ways forward together.
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“…we cannot for one moment forget that we are up against a fascist government which has built up a massive coercive state apparatus to crush democracy in this country and to silence the voice of all those who cry out against the policy of apartheid and baasskap.”
– Mr Nelson Mandela. The struggle is my life, p67. From an article headlined ‘Bantu Education goes to university’ , June 1957.
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