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Koyo Bala set to go for cancer operation

MUSICIAN and socialite Koyo Bala goes in for surgery for anal cancer next Friday.

The flamboyant 36-year-old gay man said, in addition to being HIV positive, he was now battling cancer. He was diagnosed more than two years ago, a few months after he publicly divulged his HIV-positive status.

The procedure will be done at Victoria Hospital in Cape Town.

"I went for chemotherapy for six weeks and a radiation programme two years ago, but the cancer came back severely," he said.

"I was referred to Cape Town to do the operation by doctors in Johannesburg. The doctors told me they were surprised [I had the cancer] because it is something that is more prevalent in women."

Bala first captured the limelight with his all-gay pop trio, 3Sum, in the mid-2000s. The band became inactive when one member, Jeff Moyo, reportedly died from HIV/Aids-related complications in 2010.

mashotol@sowetan.co.za