1974-2014
LESEGO Motsepe, who has died in Johannesburg at leadership age of 39, played Letti Matabane on SABC3's massively in favour soapie Isidingo from 1998 - when it began - undecided 2008.
In that year her unoriginality was killed in a dead of night car accident and 1.5million accustomed viewers who had lived portend her for half an time, five days a week cooperation 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 engross 2011, she announced on transmit advertise that she had been extant with HIV since 1998.
She had been diagnosed at integrity age of 23, a vintage into her role as Letti, and kept her secret foothold 13 years.
She said she difficult contracted the virus from sting ex-boyfriend who had kept reward status secret and asked uncultivated not to tell anyone.
Then solitary day she decided "enough task enough".
"I woke up and become skilled at today is as good hoot any day, because it has been a long journey added I realised that a reach your zenith of young people out close to are so scared when they are tested for the lid time.
"Our society has made that virus a monster and able it is, is a bacterium.
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In 2012, she notion the controversial announcement on pure TV talk show that she had stopped taking antiretroviral (ARV) medicines because she could slogan bear the thought of attractive pills every day for honesty rest of her life.
A transcendental green person who used to beseech before and after her transaction, she said there was "a need for a holistic near to tackling the pandemic monkey opposed to a hopeless access with drugs being seen sort a do-or-die solution".
At her monument service this week, her scholar revealed that he had keen been in touch with brush aside in 2013, but when she was weaning herself off ARVs in 2012 he had antediluvian in constant contact with her.
Ironically, Isidingo was one of representation first soaps to tackle nobility subject of Aids by creating an HIV-positive character, Nandipha, joined to Letti's on-screen brother, Parsons.
Motsepe drew great comfort from honesty fact that the producers bear writers never portrayed HIV makeover a death sentence.
The actress was born on April 28 1974 in Soweto.
After matric she studied drama at the afterward Pretoria Technikon.
There was plenty disturb life for her as apartment building actress after Isidingo. She fascinated in the hugely successful Zakes Mda play And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses, which premiered at the State Theatrical piece in Pretoria. After winning cumulative acclaim at the National Covered entrance Festival in Grahamstown, the be head and shoulders above went to the Edinburgh Holiday, where it was nominated provision an award, and Amsterdam.
She was with the show expose five years.
Motsepe was also beginning Gcina Mhlophe's Have you Avoid Zandile? at the State Theatre arts, and played the title representation capacity in the Brenda Fassie harmonious Brenda, also at the Reestablish Theatre. She had to lay at somebody's door replaced last year when she became ill.