SA duo on TIME influential people list
26/05/09
South African Cabinet Minister Barbara Hogan and seminal artist William Kentridge, are both included in this year's TIME 100. The list groups influential people from an array of categories including leaders and revolutionaries, builders and titans, artists and entertainers, heroes and icons, and scientists and thinkers.
The Time profile TIME profile describes Hogan as being made of profound experience, a dedicated service to her homeland, unflinching courage, conviction and compassion.
Mention is made of Hogan's departure from the views of previous health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang regarding HIV/Aids and its treatment, and in turn doing "what is right". "She has acknowledged that HIV causes Aids and has embraced anti-retroviral drugs," says the writer. "She has pledged that pregnant mothers with the virus will be treated with nevirapine to stop transmission at birth - ending a policy of denial that was responsible for the loss of an estimated 330 000 lives.
Lou Reed, who authored the TIME profile on William Kentridge, pays rich tribute to Kentridge's "startlingly original" drawings that capture multiple feelings, emotions and moods.
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