Dr Kgosi Letlape is an ophthalmologist, health care leader, and Member of Parliament in South Africa.

[2] Dr Letlape made history by becoming the first black person in South Africa to qualify as an ophthalmologist during the apartheid years.

In 2002, together with the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the South African Medical Association (SAMA), he established the Tshepang Trust, a not-for-profit organisation, serving as its executive director until 2013.

At the request of the late President Nelson Mandela in 2003, Dr Letlape embarked on what was regarded as an ambitious project at the time, to provide HIV-positive patients access to antiretroviral treatment.

This entailed collaborating with state hospitals to facilitate the treatment of HIV-positive patients when none was provided by the government of the time.