![]() ![]() She aims to warn women that they may not be safe in their marriages and that they should protect themselves, “Let us fight back! Don’t let the busy-tongued gossip stop you from testing! Don’t let him stop you from getting the right medicine you need!”(Magona 85). Her novel, Beauty’s Gift, has an educational purpose for women and men. ![]() We need to be honest, and say that what is wrong is wrong.” ( “The Witness” Web). In an interview with Margaret von Klemperer, Magona says, “It’s a book about our national shame, and it will make me enemies, but I wrote it because I am very, very angry. Her intentions of being forward are purely educational. She makes the reader realise the seriousness and reality of the Aids pandemic in South Africa today. ![]() She does this through her characters and their actions. Margaret von Klemperer says on Sindiwe Magona’s approach to the Aids pandemic, “She obviously feels people must speak out on the Aids issue because only if the stigma is removed and the disease can be talked about openly, can it be controlled.” ( “The Witness” Web). She hides neither facts nor truth and has little embarrassment in confronting the problems concerning Aids. Sindiwe Magona uses an extremely blunt and forward approach to Aids in Beauty’s Gift. ![]()
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