Thembi ngubane biography channel

By Sayantani DasGupta

&#;Our parents struggled against apartheid, they wanted to be free.

Thembi ngubane biography channel

And it is the same with HIV/AIDS. This is the new struggle.&#; – Thembi Ngubane

Thembi Ngubane was a year-old South African woman from Khayelitsha township, outside Cape Town. She never thought she would inspire people from around the world with her life’s story.

Surely, she never thought she would continue to be an inspiration even after her death.

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But when Thembi was given a tape recorder by NPR’s Radio Diaries, and asked to record the day to day experiences of her life as one of South Africa’s millions of HIV+ youth, everything changed. In light of the severe social stigma that remains around HIV and AIDS in Southern Africa, Thembi had until then been relatively silent about her condition.

Even when Radio Diaries played segments of her story on National Public Radio in the U.S., she did not want her story broadcast in her home country.

Yet, in the personal to political tradition of s