When AIDS calls a hero: the story of a Zimbabwean youth
hed to the edge of the precipice, Josamu emotionally confessed to have fought 21 fights since testing HIV positive in 1986. The world was stunned. Dismayed boxers who had fought against him shivered and quivered as they sought to know their fate in various health facilities. General pandemonium broke loose in the boxing world. Journalists, like vultures, loaded their cameras to exploit yet another human tragedy for profit and clicked away the last moments of a dying man. Josamu became instant headline news and condemnation flew in from every Tom, Dick and Harry that had a mouth which could talk. Why was he coming out now? Was it an act of redemption or retribution? The questions seemed endless. But what was certain was that a national hero had now, just because he had AIDS, become a public
By MUNAI KENNEDY
10 years ago