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...well-regarded former tax commissioner, Pravin Gordhan, became Finance Minister. Barbara Hogan - who as Health Minister ended years of South Africa's attachment to what the U.N. called the "lunatic fringe" of the AIDS world - took Public Enterprise. Zuma fired Hogan's predecessor at health, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who recommended beetroot, garlic, lemon juice and potatoes to treat HIV and AIDS, and former police chief Jackie Selebi, who is charged with corruption...
...Became health minister in September, when Kgalema Motlanthe took over from Mbeki. Motlanthe demoted former health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to a lower governmental position and named Hogan as her successor
...Vowed to make AIDS a top priority as health minister, reversing years of denial by Tshabalala-Msimang, who advocated treatments like beetroot and garlic...
...stand firm ... and say, 'This one cannot lead.'" But Mbeki's own leadership has been called into question in recent months. In August he was widely condemned for dismissing the highly regarded Deputy Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge after she disagreed with her boss, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang--an Mbeki ally who recommends garlic and beets for treating AIDS. (The President himself is famously skeptical that HIV causes AIDS.) In late September, Mbeki outraged the country again by sacking the head of the National Prosecuting Authority, Vusi Pikoli, who had issued an arrest warrant for another Mbeki ally...
...fair, has been his own doing: In August, he caused outrage by sacking the well-respected Deputy Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge. She had taken steps to restore some credibility to South Africa's HIV/AIDS program, which had suffered under her boss, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, best known for her recommendation of garlic and beetroot as AIDS treatments. And Mbeki himself has expressed skepticism that HIV causes AIDS. But Madlala-Routledge's true crime, say close observers, was lack of loyalty to Tshabalala-Msimang, a key Mbeki ally. Tshabalala-Msimang hardly helped her patron's case when, in September...