>From today's Sowetan. This woman is presenting to be a champion in the fight against HIV/AIDS, but just look at what she is doing to her very own sister.
http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=891331 Get out of my house! - Sis with HIV ejected 24 November 2008 NGWAKO MALATJI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The national convener of the Congress of the People (Cope) youth wing, Anele Mda, stands accused of having rejected her own HIV-positive sister. Anele, who claims to have devoted much of her time to combating HIV-Aids, allegedly starved and kicked her HIV-positive younger sister Ayanda Mda and her son out of her house in Port Elizabeth last year because she wanted space for a domestic worker she was hiring. This despite Ayanda begging Anele not to kick her out. She told Anele that she did not know anyone she could squat with around town – and since she was terminally ill she depended on her (Anele) for survival. But Anele dismissed Ayanda's claim as a sick "publicity stunt". Anele, who recently labelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema as "a wild animal", confirmed that Ayanda lived with her in a rented East London house in 2006. "She stayed with my aunt before I took her in," Anele says. "I did that because I felt sorry for my aunt who had to pay for her medicine, give her food and hire a person to look after her." She says problems arose when Ayanda became "moody" and started isolating herself and sometimes even refused to have a chat. Anele says when she arrived home from work one day Ayanda told her that people were looking at her with "fish eyes". She said she felt uncomfortable and had decided to pack her things and go and live in her own place. "I gave her R1000 and cooking pots and blankets as basic stuff to start her own place," Anele says. "A few months later I met her in the local town and gave her R350 and again R250. "Why would I be so charitable to somebody I kicked out of my house? The whole thing is a publicity stunt or she is just being used by people to get back at me. "If she wants to popularise her status, she can do so without dragging my name through the mud." But Ayanda sings a different tune. She confirms she lodged at her sister's house after her mother disapproved of her living in her aunt's house. "But as time went by Anele's behaviour towards me changed. She would come home and not talk to me," says Ayanda. "She would cook and eat and not give me and my son any food. "I begged her not to kick me out because I didn't know where to go. But she told me that was none of her business. I went to live in a shack in Phakamisa location without a bed or groceries. "I phoned her and asked her to help me and she gave me old blankets, cooking pots and groceries." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
