Johannesburg - The South African President, Mr Thabo Mbeki, who has attracted criticism for questioning the link between HIV and AIDS, has stated once again that AIDS is not the biggest killer in the country.
In a letter to the Health Minister, Mr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, published by Business Day newspaper yesterday, Mr Mbeki said South Africa's biggest killer was external causes and that HIV/AIDS formed only 2.2 per cent of total deaths in South Africa.
The figures that Mr Mbeki quotes were compiled by the UN World Health Organisation for 1995.