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Sibongile Manana(born 6 September 1960) is a South African politician from Mpumalanga. She represented the African National Congress (ANC) as a legislator from 1994 to 2019, most proximately in the National Assembly from 2014 to 2019 and 2004 to 2009. She also sat in the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature, where she served on the Mpumalanga Executive Council from 1999 to 2004 and 2009 to 2014.
Manana is best known for her tenure as Mpumalanga's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Health from 1999 to 2003 during the HIV/AIDS epidemic; she staunchly resisted the rollout of antiretroviral drugs in the province's public health facilities. She was a member of the ANC's National Executive Committee from 2007 to 2012.

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If you’re rich and have support from your cronies, there things are going well. It’s shocking,’

It would be nice to see some kind of retribution. But just a recording of their crimes, in my opinion, is one step towards people much later looking back and seeing that human life at one stage, despite our Constitution, is treated cheaply, especially if you’re poor and don’t have access.

I think it’s very sad to see that people who have basically abused human rights on a gross level such as this are being rewarded.