ABSTRACT
In khahlamba, death attendant upon AIDS was not perceived as the outcome of a neutral affliction for which there was no cure. Rather, death, on the scale with which it came to dwell among people, was tied up with the notion of a continuance of past social dissonance and histories of oppression, racial discrimination and dispossession. 1 This chapter explores these understandings of a preponderance of death and illness, and how they intertwined with people's relationship with the state.
