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| Twelve year old Nkosi Johnson, who became the symbol of the battle against HIV/AIDS in South Africa, was given a hero's burial in Johannesburg on Saturday June 9, 2001 in a funeral attended by thousands of mourners, including the former Zambian president, Kenneth Kaunda. Nkosi lost his own fight against AIDS when he died on 1 June, after slipping into a coma just before the New Year. His adoptive mother, Gail Johnson, who took in the young AIDS orphan when he was two, and his maternal grandmother, Ruth Khumalo, were united in their grief, and both wept as Nkosi's white and gold casket was lowered into the grave at Westpark Cemetery in Johannesburg. | |||
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