What I do believe is that the nonsense spouted by Mbeki and others on this post about HIV and AIDs (no such link) would not have been promulgated by the previous government. South Africa had a western medical establishment, even accomplishing the world's first heart transplant. They would not have rejected aid to provide AZT.
Those who spout this disinformation have not seen ther reality of the severe increase in mortality rates of those in the prime of their life. It is not malaria or TB, diseases which are commonly recognized in Africa. It is HIV and its accompanying diseases of the suppressed immune system. No Zimbabwean families with which I am acquainted has not lost at least one sibling to this disease. It is spoken of furtively, as there is a great stigma attached.