210:(traditional doctor) in 2004. She took ARVs when they became available on the public health system in South Africa. She supported the use of ARVs because she herself had first-hand seen the destruction caused by AIDS. Mabele answered her calling to become a traditional healer several years after starting ARVs, and almost a decade after she found out her HIV status. Mabele was the target of a march in 2004 when more than 500 traditional healers marched to give her a petition against the
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had been shattered and whose hearts needed piecing together. Pru did that work. She visited so many grieving families. When lesbians were killed, Pru went. When another HIV-positive woman died, Pru was there. When a woman was murdered, Pru was at the front. Painted up, dolled up, voice ragged, breathing through her mouth, swearing and joking and sweating, she was there.
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crime to the police, a stark piece of evidence as to how inaccessible and unwelcoming the police and judicial system in SA is. She commented "I believe that the quality of women's leadership is even more important than the numbers of women in leadership." Mabele was one of the founding members of the
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Donors stopped funding support groups because they were no longer fashionable. But Pru knew the truth, which was that life for women happens in conversations, in the time it takes to sit with one another. Those groups were emotional life support for women who were in critical condition, whose lives
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Mabele was a strong advocate for ending violence against women and was a member of the One in Nine
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as part of an international torch relay for the 2004 Olympics in Greece. She was the recipient of many human rights awards over the course of her career. These included a Woman of
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