“We are definitely going to win this war. I can feel it in my blood, I can see it in your eyes, I can feel it in this place,” Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi told hundreds of delegates at the Positive Convention “it’s about living with HIV/AIDS” at Midrand today.

Pholokgolo Ramothwala, who has been living with HIV for the past 11 years, dreamed up the concept – of a conference specifically for people living with the virus.

Judge Edwin Cameron, who has been HIV positive for nearly 20 years, hailed President Jacob Zuma’s speech last week, in which he called for a national movement against the pandemic.

“The president showed us in that speech that he knows what must be done. There must be no shame. No discrimination. No recrimination. And the president said we must end stigma,” Cameron said.

Dr Nono Simelela, CEO of the SA National AIDS Council and the former head of SA’s HIV/AIDS programme, said: “This is an amazing time in South Africa.”

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