Gugu Dlamini (1962–1998) was a South African woman from KwaMancinza, a town in eastern

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...

province, who was stoned and stabbed to death after she had admitted on a Zulu language radio on

World AIDS Day World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988, is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease. The acquired immun ...

that she was

HIV positive The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of '' Lentivirus'' (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immu ...

. Before her death, Dlamini had been a volunteer field worker for the National Association of People Living With H.I.V./AIDS.

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Neighbors Kill an H.I.V.-Positive AIDS Activist in South Africa
1962 births 1998 deaths South African murder victims HIV/AIDS activists {{SouthAfrica-bio-stub