A MEDICAL activist
I meet Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, or Dr T as she’s popularly known, while she’s in the midst of settling into her new office at the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) at the Constitution Hill in Braamfontein. The book, Medical Apartheid, by Harriet A. Washington catches my eye amidst the piles of boxes — something I process to mean that this is no conventional medic. In fact, she is the epitome of how the world always, eventually, embraces those who show conformity the middle finger.
As a child, toy shopping sprees for Dr T would always end up in her buying first aid material — from bandages to medication. “And whenever there was
