Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

Manto Tshabalala- Msimang ( born October 9, 1940 in Durban, † December 16, 2009 in Johannesburg) was a South African politician.

She studied medicine at the University of Fort Hare, where she received a BA degree in 1961. After the banning of the African National Congress ( ANC) in 1962, she went on the recommendation of the ANC leadership in exile. In Leningrad (Soviet Union) and at the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania ), she continued her studies, she was in Tanzania and Botswana worked as a doctor. In 1990 she returned to South Africa. She was elected as a member of the ANC in 1994 in the South African Parliament and was chairman of the health committee.

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was from 1996 to 1999, Deputy Minister of Justice of South Africa, from 1999, she was health minister in the government of Thabo Mbeki. In this role, she was criticized, because they denied the link between HIV and AIDS and instead of treatment with anti- retroviral therapy the consumption of fruits and vegetables recommended (see also AIDS - denial ). One started at Harvard University study found that their policy is to be responsible for the premature deaths of 365,000 people.

In September 2008, she was dismissed by Mbeki's successor, Kgalema Motlanthe from office and replaced by Barbara Hogan. She has held until May 2009, the Office of the Minister in the Presidency, after the death of the previous incumbent Ivy Matsepe - Casaburri she took over in April and May 2009 as well as acting the Office of the Minister for Communications.

She died at the age of 69, apparently of complications caused by alcohol consumption after a 2007 liver transplant. She was married to his second wife Mendi Msimang, who was treasurer of the ANC since 1997, and had two daughters.