Bio
Nombeko Mpongo is a South African AIDS activist and counsellor best known for co-hosting (with Vuyani Jacobs) the third season of the HIV magazine series Siyayinqoba Beat It!, in 2002.
From Gugulethu, Cape Town, Mpongo contracted HIV after being gang raped on her way to work in 1997. Although at first it was difficult to talk about the ordeal she learnt that there is life after HIV.
A strong and vocal advocate for the successful roll-out of post exposure prophylaxis for rape survivors she also helps other HIV positive people to fight for their survival.
Mpongo is currently employed by the City of Cape Town's HIV/AIDS Workplace Programme.