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Brown Dash is dead!
The death of kwaito star Brown Dash has brought the music industry to a standstill... Yesterday evening, condolences from fellow musicians and friends of the star poured in on social networks just hours after the sad news was spread that Dash had diedIN THE NEWS: Lebese said to have died from an AIDS related condition
The Family of former Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates and Bafana Bafana star Thabang Lebese revealed last night that the player died of complications related to HIV/Aids. Lebese died at Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg 13 days ago. He was 38.Dastardly disclosure: Times leaves readers adrift
The Times today reported on the outraged responses of two women implicated in a public email which alleges that they were part of an organised ring formed to maliciously infect men with HIV.
But the article in question does not provide any framework with which to make sense of the harmful and problematic behaviour of publicly disclosing a person’s HIV-status.
While The Times reports that the (legitimate) complaints of the two women lie in the fact that they have been wrongly and maliciously labeled HIV-positive, it is the action of the person who chose to make this conversation public that is considerably more worrying. This behaviour is even more worrying considering that the email clearly identifies 23 women by their first and last names and in some cases even features pictures.
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