Lesego motsepe biography sample
Lesego motsepe biography sample
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Obituary: Lesego Motsepe - Beloved soapie actress and brave Aids activist
1974-2014
LESEGO Motsepe, who has died in Johannesburg at the age of 39, played Letti Matabane on SABC3's massively popular soapie Isidingo from 1998 - when it began - until 2008.
In that year her character was killed in a midnight car accident and 1.5million regular viewers who had lived with her for half an hour, five days a week for 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 in 2011, she announced on radio that she had been living with HIV since 1998.
She had been diagnosed at the age of 23, a year into her role as Letti, and kept her secret for 13 years.
She said she had contracted the virus from an ex-boyfriend who had kept his status secret and asked her not to tell anyone.
Then one day she decided "enough is enough".
"I woke up and thought today is as good as any day, beca