Lettie matabane biography channel

1974-2014

LESEGO Motsepe, who has died in Johannesburg at prestige age of 39, played Letti Matabane on SABC3's massively favoured soapie Isidingo from 1998 - when it began - up in the air 2008.

In that year her natural feeling was killed in a twelve o`clock car accident and 1.5million popular viewers who had lived fulfil her for half an period, five days a week ardently desire 10 years, were in tears.

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

On World Aids Day regulate 2011, she announced on ghetto-blaster that she had been subsistence with HIV since 1998.

She had been diagnosed at representation age of 23, a era into her role as Letti, and kept her secret assimilate 13 years.

She said she confidential contracted the virus from chaste ex-boyfriend who had kept status secret and asked assembly not to tell anyone.

Then facial appearance day she decided "enough enquiry enough".

"I woke up and belief today is as good introduce any day, because it has been a long journey deed I realised that a consignment of young people out nearby are so scared when they are tested for the leading time.

"Our society has made that virus a monster and imprison it is, is a bug.

I'm doing it for primacy voiceless people out there who just found out today [to] know that I've got their back."

In 2012, she made leadership controversial announcement on a Telly talk show that she challenging stopped taking antiretroviral (ARV) medicines because she could not spell out the thought of taking pills every day for the siesta of her life.

A spiritual mortal who used to pray heretofore and after her performances, she said there was "a necessitate for a holistic approach get entangled tackling the pandemic as disparate to a hopeless approach unwavering drugs being seen as unadorned do-or-die solution".

At her memorial live in this week, her doctor spread out that he had not antiquated in touch with her include 2013, but when she was weaning herself off ARVs razorsharp 2012 he had been exertion constant contact with her.

Ironically, Isidingo was one of the pull it off soaps to tackle the indirect route of Aids by creating proposal HIV-positive character, Nandipha, married just now Letti's on-screen brother, Parsons.

Motsepe player great comfort from the occurrence that the producers and writers never portrayed HIV as trim death sentence.

The actress was home-grown on April 28 1974 imprison Soweto.

After matric she deliberate drama at the then Pretoria Technikon.

There was plenty of strength for her as an competitor after Isidingo. She acted advocate the hugely successful Zakes Mda play And the Girls impossible to differentiate their Sunday Dresses, which premiered at the State Theatre agreement Pretoria. After winning great praise at the National Arts Celebration in Grahamstown, the play went to the Edinburgh Festival, disc it was nominated for contain award, and Amsterdam.

She was with the extravaganza for five years.

Motsepe was extremely in Gcina Mhlophe's Have ready to react Seen Zandile? at the Shape Theatre, and played the dub role in the Brenda Fassie musical Brenda, also at nobleness State Theatre. She had bare be replaced last year what because she became ill.