Manto Tshabalala - Msimang, controversial minister of health, is born

Date: 9 Oct 1940
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Manto Tshabalala - Msimang, controversial minister of health, is born

SA health minister Mantombazana Tshabalala-Msimang was born at Emfume south coast of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. Tshabalala-Msimang matriculated at Inanda Seminary School in Durban in 1959. She later continued her studies at Fort Hare University where she managed to obtain her BA degree. Tshabalala-Msimang and other twenty-seven politically driven students were ordered by the African National Congress (ANC) to skip the country. President Thabo Mbeki was one of them. Tshabalala-Msimang and her student associates were exiled in Tanzania (then Tanganyika). Manto spent twenty-eight years in exile and continued with her studies in Russia, where she attained her medical degree at the First Leningrad Medical Institute to fulfill her mother's wish. She practiced as a Medical Doctor in different African countries. She is often a controversial figure because of her handling of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

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01Wallis, F. 2000 Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.
02Government Communications (GCIS), Profile Information: Mantombazana Tshabalala- Msimang, Dr, [online],Available at apps.gcis.gov.za [Accessed: 8 October 2013]

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