Mandela’s World Aids Day message as relevant today as it was in 1994: Cope

01 December 2015 - 12:28
By TMG Digital

The Congress of the People (Cope) marked World Aids Day by saying “it is better to educate than to discriminate” and “a good starting point is to eradicate the negative stigma that surrounds Aids”. Leaving the usual politicking aside‚ Cope’s Dennis Bloem instead quoted the words of former President Nelson Mandela 21 years ago.

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