Child Aids activist Nkosi Johnson honoured with Google doodle

Online search engine Google honoured the late South African child Aids activist Nkosi Johnson with a Google doodle on Tuesday.

Nkosi rose to international prominence in July 2000 when he delivered his self-written address, televised worldwide, to 10 000 delegates at the 13th International Aids Conference in Durban. Facing severe prejudice, Nkosi's adopted mother Gail Johnson successfully took on parents at the Melpark Primary School in Melville, Johannesburg, who were against the boy's admission in 1997 and refused to accept him as a pupil because of his HIV-positive status.

Yes

Definitely would have been President 😘

This is the boy who challenged the stigma hand on...when it was not fashionable..

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