** FILE ** In this Tuesday Sept. 5, 2006 file photo, South African Health Minister Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang stands outside Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa. Tshabalala-Msimang, who has earned international criticism for her stance on AIDS, is at center of a growing political row over newspaper allegations that she was once dismissed from a hospital job for theft and that she was a heavy drinker. The ruling African National Congress closes ranks behind the embattled minister and slams the "barbaric" abuse of press freedom, whilst opposition lawmakers demand an inquiry into why the minister was given a liver transplant earlier this year if the allegations of alcohol abuse are true (AP Photo/Mark Wessels - file)