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Celebs support World Aids Day

Nov 30, 2009 10:24 PM | By GABISILE NDEBELE

World Aids Day is being marked by several events around the country. Everyone from rock stars to retired archbishop Desmond Tutu will be turning up at the events this week to pay tribute to those living with the virus.

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Photograph by: BRAM LAMMERS
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Tutu and members of the Australian Football Federation, who are in Cape Town, will visit the Tygerberg Children's Hospital to mark the day.

The fifth annual World Aids Day gala dinner will be held at the Artscape Theatre, in Cape Town.

Solly Philander will be the master of ceremonies and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Jimmy Earl Perry and the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra will be performing.

In Johannesburg on Thursday, the Rock4Aids concert will be staged at the Alexander Theatre.

The exclusive, unplugged concert will feature Prime Circle and Josie Field, and will be hosted by comedian John Vlismas.

Field told The Times that she hoped to do more than raise funds for awareness about the pandemic.

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Dec 1 2009 02:26:21 AM
Tackler
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"Pay tribute" to those who have the virus?

Pay tribute? Why? Have they done some great deed by getting a preventable infection? What's the tribute for?
Dec 1 2009 08:25:35 AM
Stirrer
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Dec 1 2009 02:26:21 AM
Tackler

In using "pay tribute to", I'm sure the reporter did not imply that.
There are other more suitable synonyms for the phrase, like 'acknowledging' or 'recognising' which should probably have been used instead.


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