SOUTH African police have arrested two men on charges they gang-raped an AIDS activist and then kicked her to death in fury when she told them she was infected with the disease. Inspector Lunga Ntsinde said yesterday police were hunting for at least one other suspect in last week?s murder of 21-year-old Lorna Mlosana, who was raped in a toilet of a Cape Town area bar on December 14.

?We are still looking for a man who is believed to be the main suspect. But he appears to have disappeared,? Ntsinde said. Mlosana, a training volunteer with the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), South Africa?s largest HIV/AIDS activist group, was attacked in the bathroom of a tavern in the township of Khayelitsha and repeatedly raped. ?After they finished, the lady told them she was HIV positive, and then they took her outside and kicked her to death,? Ntsinde said.

TAC head Zackie Achmat, who along with the organisation was recently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for work on promoting HIV/AIDS awareness in South Africa, said the group would hold a protest today to express its outrage over the attack.