My statement was: "The apartheid regime helped kick-start the problem ten years ago by not allowing black male workers to bring their families to live with them."

I stand by it - keyword being "helped," I didn't assign complete blame to apartheid. Also, generations of discrimination in funding for education, health, and economic development in favor of white South Africans also set the stage where blacks lacked the knowledge and finances to combat the illness.

As for the rest of southern Africa, many guest workers from those countries travelled to South Africa to work, so maybe apartheid can also share some smaller part of the blame there as well.

I've not heard of Mbeki promoting witch doctors. He did oppose give AIDS drugs to pregnant women, a criminally stupid action.

As for me, I'm not hoping anyone is starving.