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Health minister loses labour court case

    JOHANNESBURG

    Mpumalanga health minister Sibongile Manana this week withdrew charges of misconduct and insubordination against a leading HIV/AIDS activist Dr Thys von Mollendorff.

    Manana dismissed former superintendent von Mollendorff in November 2001 for supporting the free supply of antiretrovirals by an AIDS NGO at the provincial Rob Ferreira hospital.

    Von Mollendorff's lawyer, Eric Louw, said Manana had accused his client and the Greater Nelspruit Rape Intervention Project (GRIP) of trying to "poison" rural black women.

    "Manana realised that they had no case against my client. Justice has been done," Louw told the UN news service PlusNews.

    Louw said a public apology from Manana should accompany the full year's salary and benefits which the department of health was on Monday instructed to pay von Mollendorff.

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