OBITUARIES / PASSINGS / Thembi Ngubane
Thembi Ngubane, 24, a South African AIDS activist whose radio diaries of her struggle against the virus won her audiences and admiration around the world, died Tuesday of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Cape Town, according to producer Joe Richman.
Ngubane carried a tape recorder with her for a year, and National Public Radio aired the diaries in 2006.
She went on to meet President Clinton and spoke at the opening of the international AIDS conference in Mexico City last year.
Her recordings can be heard at www.aidsdiary.org.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
