A memorial service will be held on 23 January at SABC’s M1 studios in Auckland Park, Johannesburg, for the late actress Lesego Motsepe, who played the role of Letti Matabane on SABC3’s soapie Isidingo for 10 years. She died at the age of 39 on 20 January.
On World Aids Day in 2011, Motsepe came out publically as HIV positive, and had been living with the disease for close to 13 years.
She said: “The virus lives in my blood. For 13 years I had known, and I wanted to use the opportunity God gave me to be able to be a mentor to those who will be going through the same struggles I have gone through.”
Jackson Mthembu, spokesperson for the ANC said, “Lesego… was a courageous young woman with whom many of us were privileged to interact with. She was also an unrelenting crusader in the fight against HIV/Aids.”
