Mark Johannes, 56, has filed a complaint with the SA Human Rights Commission after being wrongly diagnosed as HIV-positive 25 years ago.
A Cape Town man who says he was wrongly diagnosed as HIV-positive 25 years ago while living in George has lodged a formal complaint with the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), claiming no one has ever been held accountable for the torment and devastation the diagnosis caused in his life.
Mark Johannes, 56, said his world fell apart after doctors told him in 2001 he was HIV-positive.
Believing he was facing a death sentence, the BMW car salesman lost his job, his family left him and he gave up on life because he thought he was going to “die anyway”.
“It was one setback after the other,” Johannes said.
