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Sunday Times (Johannesburg) - October 29, 2006
Gwen Gill
He was speaking at the launch of the Loomba Trust in Johannesburg this week, attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife Cherie Booth QC.
Loomba is a charity that supports widows - Branson is its patron-in-chief and Blair its president.
He told guests - many of them Virgin Airlines staff from around the world, visiting Joburg to celebrate the airline's 10th birthday in South Africa - that Tshabalala-Msimang was "killing tens of thousands" with her garlic, instead of pushing the antiretroviral approach to treating HIV/Aids.
He went on to urge "everyone to rise up and tell Mbeki to save his reputation and stop killing thousands of his own people".
Branson also told of how a wealthy friend of his had approached the South African government with a $100-million cheque in hand to buy antiretrovirals. The offer was declined and the money went to another needy African country.
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