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Beat It! 1999 Episode 8 - Human Rights
Beat It! 1999 Episode 8 - Positive Person and Red Noose
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In this Human Rights section we see how Nkosi Johnson and his foster mother Gail brought about the adoption of a National HIV/AIDS Schools Policy.
In the final episode of the 1999 series and in his last stint on the show Marc Lottering presented the Noose to all those individuals who weren't advocating for the rights of HIV positive people, for treatment and better prevention programmes. He went on to present the Positive Person award to Nkosi Johnson and his mother Gail for fighting HIV discrimination in the school system.
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Gail on HIV & schools
1999 - Ep. 8 - We see how Nkosi Johnson and his foster mother Gail brought about the adoption of a national HIV/AIDS School Policy when a school Nkosi wanted to attend at first turned down his apllication because of his HIV status.
“I told them, ‘I’m not fighting with you’. ‘You were sleeping and I woke you up”.”
Fighting for social grants.
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