There is a link. In the early days of the HIV era in Africa Mbeki was in charge and there was alot of denial that HIV was sexually transmitted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/...lism_in_South_Africa This delayed any effective response to HIV in South Africa for about 10 years. South Africa has the highest HIV rates in Africa. But that is not the complete picture. South Africa in many ways a perfect setup for heterosexual HIV tranmission. Lots of migrant workers who frequent prostitutes. The mining companies didn't allow the men to bring their families to the mining towns so lonely men turned to prostitutes. Then went back home and gave the HIV to their wives. My South Africa is worse off statement was deliberately provocative. It is the LR after all. It always bugged me that smug Westerners in North America and Europe boycotted South Africa. There were at least a dozen sub-Saharan countries that had human rights abuses as bad as South Africa but South Africa was the one we chose to boycott. As I said before I do not think apartheid was a good thing. Thank goodness Nelson Mandela was in charge during the transition he was smart enough to know that going down the Rhodesia path would lead to disaster. It still remains to be seen if South Africa will end more like a typical African country or like a Western democracy.
They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot
