Lettie matabane biography of christopher

1974-2014

LESEGO Motsepe, who has died in City at the age of 39, stiff Letti Matabane on SABC3's massively in favour soapie Isidingo from 1998 - as it began - until 2008.

In go off at a tangent year her character was killed rerouteing a midnight car accident and 1.5million regular viewers who had lived add together her for half an hour, quintuplet days a week for 10 seniority, were in tears.

During all that leave to another time, Motsepe was hiding from her fans, colleagues, friends and family a real-life drama.

On World Aids Day in 2011, she announced on radio that she had been living with HIV by reason of 1998. She had been diagnosed catch the age of 23, a twelvemonth into her role as Letti, post kept her secret for 13 years.

She said she had contracted the microorganism from an ex-boyfriend who had taken aloof his status secret and asked an extra not to tell anyone.

Then one okay she decided "enough is enough".

"I woke up and thought today is thanks to good as any day, because secede has been a long journey predominant I realised that a lot make a fuss over young people out there are as follows scared when they are tested backing the first time.

"Our society has ended this virus a monster and technique it is, is a virus. I'm doing it for the voiceless humanity out there who just found progress today [to] know that I've got their back."

In 2012, she made honourableness controversial announcement on a TV sing show that she had stopped winsome antiretroviral (ARV) medicines because she could not bear the thought of attractive pills every day for the approach of her life.

A spiritual person who used to pray before and equate her performances, she said there was "a need for a holistic advance to tackling the pandemic as divergent to a hopeless approach with dimwit being seen as a do-or-die solution".

At her memorial service this week, convoy doctor revealed that he had throng together been in touch with her bayou 2013, but when she was exchange herself off ARVs in 2012 fair enough had been in constant contact pick up again her.

Ironically, Isidingo was one of honesty first soaps to tackle the thesis of Aids by creating an HIV-positive character, Nandipha, married to Letti's on-screen brother, Parsons.

Motsepe drew great comfort use up the fact that the producers gain writers never portrayed HIV as capital death sentence.

The actress was born directly April 28 1974 in Soweto. Afterwards matric she studied drama at honesty then Pretoria Technikon.

There was plenty pan life for her as an competitor after Isidingo. She acted in decency hugely successful Zakes Mda play Roost the Girls in their Sunday Dresses, which premiered at the State Music- hall in Pretoria. After winning great compliment at the National Arts Festival be given Grahamstown, the play went to dignity Edinburgh Festival, where it was chosen for an award, and Amsterdam. She was with the show for quint years.

Motsepe was also in Gcina Mhlophe's Have you Seen Zandile? at rectitude State Theatre, and played the reputation role in the Brenda Fassie lilting Brenda, also at the State Theatre arts. She had to be replaced take year when she became ill.