Poverty doesn´t cause AIDS either...

For all Thabo Mbeki´s famous and infamous actions his legacy will never contain anything bar one particular statement he made. The magnitude of it was so controversial it will go down in SA history as the hallmark of his presidential tenure. He has para-quoted (like paraphrased but orally) as saying, ´HIV doesn´t cause AIDS, poverty and no education do!´

If you look at the issue of causality he isn´t a hundred percent incorrect, just taking a very ambition step toward generality. I am sure Edwin Cameron would argue that poverty and a lack of education didn´t contribute to his status. However, it is fair to admit that part of Mbeki´s remarks were correct.

New information has come to light disproving Mbeki´s claim.

Sam Kikine – head of the International Traditional and Medicine Research Council – at a KZN public hearing on legislation disbanding the Scorpions had this to say:

Why have the Scorpions not investigated Wouter Basson and the CIA, who have created this AIDS?

Let´s keep the Scorpions debacle and the Basson investigation aside as separate issues and rather focus on the submission that the CIA (that is short for the Central Intelligence Agency, as in the one from America) have created this AIDS?

THIS Aids? Give us our free? As if his organization the ITMRC isn´t enough of a linguistic conundrum he then rubs us up with a quote concerning THIS Aids. Well, strap me to an ambulance stretcher, take me to a state hospital, bind me in bedclothes and feed me garlic and African potato I have never heard such an outrageous unsubstantiated conspiracy theory in my life.

The CIA started Aids? I suppose they start Aids to confine Africa to 3^rd world debt, an international oil crisis to keep the middle East at war, hiphop to keep their local african american population from revolting and country western to keep the Rednecks from crossing the northern Louisianna border.

No doubt...