Nice try. But you made the claim, not me. You claim that agueing that language is a bad thing kills. Show me where that's ever happened, or even how it happened
http://feeds.southafricanews.net/?rid=15f3b7e7404365e6&cat=371b1b8643d479c1&f=1
*Mbeki's government first denied that the HIV virus causes AIDS and then resisted offering HIV drugs to its people, calling them expensive and potentially dangerous.
The government bowed to public outcry in 2003 and launched a public antiretroviral (ARV) drug programme which officials now call one of the biggest in the world.
But Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang still questions ARVs and instead promotes home-grown remedies such as olive oil, beetroot and garlic. She says they boost nutrition and immune response but activists say her prescription leads to thousands of unnecessary deaths every year.
"It is the only country in Africa whose government continues to propound theories more worthy of a lunatic fringe than of a concerned and compassionate state," Lewis said on Friday.*
According to what I've found, it appears that S. Africa is actually distrubiting anti-virals at this point. The minister seems to have other opinions, which is sad. It seems that like all democracies, the S. African government is bowing to public pressure. They just need to rein in the loony fringe.