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Sunday Times (Johannesburg) - Sunday, 20 October 2002
Dingilizwe Ntuli
The clinic provides comprehensive primary healthcare and is one of the health centres that provides antiretroviral drugs to reduce the transmission of HIV from mother to child.
Mbeki, who previously generated controversy by siding with Aids dissidents in questioning the link between HIV and Aids, was in a jovial mood as he chatted with patients at the clinic.
The President spent about half an hour touring the health centre, listening to complaints and joking and laughing with patients before having lunch with clinic staff.
Afterwards, he moved to a community church where he fielded questions from East Rand residents.
He had earlier visited Orange Farm, south of Johannesburg, where he and Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa handed over title deeds to 3 000 formerly homeless people who were moved to the area from Mshenguville, Soweto, in the 1980s.
The Gauteng presidential imbizo started on Friday at the Echibini Secondary School in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, where Mbeki spoke to pupils studying maths, science and technology.
He later visited the Gauteng automotive cluster - the manufacturing plants of Nissan, Ford, BMW and Fiat - in Rosslyn, north of Pretoria.
He also visited Greenfields, near Germiston, where he helped to register children eligible for state social grants in a door-to-door campaign in which people were asked about their concerns about service delivery.
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