Former US president Jimmy Carter nearly punched former SA president Thabo Mbeki over HIV/Aids treatment in the country, the Sunday Times reported.

"The first time I came here to Cape Town I almost got in a fight with the president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, because he was refusing to let Aids be treated," Carter told the newspaper.

He said at the time, then-health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was standing with Mbeki.

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