Next unstoppable mission, “SAVE” Dianne Lang
Dianne Lang is more than a story to me. She is a friend. A real life heroine, Joan of Arc, if you will, who has had to flee for her life from her beloved country of South Africa.
A fifth-generation South African, card-carrying member of the ANC, this white woman, rebel angel, made it her mission to save Mandela’s forgotten children. Those who live on the streets because their parents have died of AIDS and other similar diseases.
However, Dianne Lang is fighting a battle for survival right now, this time it’s hers. She has been the target of death. No, she is not on death row, (nothing so legal) but she might as well be, as she now lives in mortal fear of South African lawmakers and those who are paid to enforce the law, her strength. special police called the Scorpions. What is it that Hollywood coined this with? Oh yeah, extreme prejudice
Why would they do this? Obviously she did something wrong, right?
Well, the truth is that they are afraid of Dianne, because they fear what she has discovered and that one day the truth will come out about her years of neglect, corruption and liberal abuse of power. One day soon, someone with enough power to stop them will believe Dianne and the good life will come to an end. So, to preserve her lifestyle, she has been told to look at herself, because she is being shot.
Dianne finally takes her threats seriously. After her best friend was killed, beaten, shot, tampered with, and erased from her computers and destroyed, she knows firsthand what the police can and will do to stop her.
For years, Dianne has tried to protect and respect the laws that are supposed to be in place to protect children under the age of 18, or so the South African Constitution says. She has fought tirelessly but without success.
For years, Dianne has struggled to get antiretroviral drugs for her children and her community who are HIV positive and die of AIDS, without success.
For years, Dianne tried to do justice for a little voice, a voice that was silenced too soon, her little life turned off a few days after she was 4 months old, by a police officer who raped, killed her and discarded her as trash.
Dianne has promised that as long as she lives and breathes, she will continue to fight child abuse, corruption within her beloved South African government, and the rights of the children she has personally supported, educated and loved for many years. own children. All 42 of them.
Who are your children? They are the forgotten, those abandoned black orphans from the streets for whom the government did not have a program.
Dianne would pick them up at the ‘restaurant’, aka the local dump for most of educated society, and would bring them home to socialize, educate, take care of their health, and give them as much LOVE as possible. I wanted to give them hope.
However, she is alone in her endeavors. The government does not recognize these children because they were not issued birth certificates. Without papers they do not exist, and since they do not exist, there are no funds, medicine or assistance available to provide them or their caregivers. It seems like a small technicality, since they do exist, and their number can be explained physically.
Dianne Lang fights valiantly for retro-antiviral medication, but receives news that NONE is available to South Africans, needed for export, plus they are ‘bad’ for SAs anyway. Beet and lemon juice is the way to go. This is the personal prescription delivered by the Minister of Health, who by the way, was placed at the top of the list for a Liver Transplant last year and is now glowing in good health.
Do Dianne and her children, her community, have HIV or AIDS? Dianne has been tested and no, however, most of the good folks in Middelburg chose not to get tested for HIV as it would be of no use knowing if they didn’t, other than stressing them out. They know that one day they will live or die, and since they have no medicine, they would rather not know.
Selenium, an inexpensive mineral that appears to significantly improve the condition of an HIV-infected patient (Dianne and the children take it) is prohibitively expensive for South Africans. Most cannot afford the high price of R17.60 for a pound.
It’s a shame that the government seems to be running out of money for things like powdered milk, selenium, antiretroviral drugs, etc. Heck, they won’t even provide free lemon and beet juice.
HIV-positive mothers are forced to infect their newborns by breastfeeding.
THIS is what Dianne fights for. Basic human rights!
The right of children to be safe from rape and violence by their caregivers. The right of a child to grow up in a stable and loving environment, go to school, receive medicine and medical care, and have a vision for a future that has potential instead of the continuous death card that is handed out every day.