From the BBC:
Sacking a minister for going to an AIDS conference - hilarious. Only in South Africa...
Aids activists and opposition parties have criticised the sacking of South Africa's deputy health minister, after she went to a Spanish Aids conference.
"This is a dreadful error of judgement that will harm public healthcare," said the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
It is believed that President Thabo Mbeki did not authorise Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge's trip to Spain.
She has previously clashed with her boss, the controversial Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
Dr Tshabalala-Msimang is known as Dr Beetroot after urging those with HIV to eat beetroot and garlic, while the government has been condemned for not providing enough anti-retroviral drugs.
Some 5.5m South Africans are HIV-positive - more than in any other country.
Sacking a minister for going to an AIDS conference - hilarious. Only in South Africa...
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