I asked Glenda Gray, a pediatrician who has regularly lambasted the Mbeki government for its AIDS policies, how South Africans would have reacted had a white government questioned the connection between HIV and AIDS, refused to distribute anti-HIV drugs to infected pregnant women, and supported clearly bogus AIDS treatments. "There'd be anarchy," said Gray, who offers free anti-HIV drugs to every infected, pregnant woman who visits the prenatal clinic she helps run in Soweto's Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. "It would be a revolution."
(Photograph by Malcolm Linton)