Colonial tendencies towards Africa get revived through the pandemic

SA's discovery of new variant gets punished via politics of the 'dark continent' being seen as dirty, diseased

01 December 2021 - 07:55
By Malaika Mahlatsi

In the early 1990s, a Ugandan immigrant named Charles Ssenyonga went to Canada. Ssenyonga was HIV positive at a time when little was known and understood about the disease and when the response to it was to isolate and criminalise the infected.

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