A man who knows he is HIV positive has opened up about knowingly passing the disease to many other people.

In what will come across as a rather shocking development, he admitted to being a rapist and deliberately spreading HIV.

Only identified as David, the man was interviewed by BBC Africa Eye by crime reporter, Golden Mtika, in a documentary titled 'My Neighbour The Rapist.'

'I feel okay'

David who comes from Diepsloot in Gauteng, South Africa admitted to being a rapist and to have raped several women.

Mtika who said David was his childhood friend,  said he had previously saved David from mob justice in Diepsloot. In the documentary, the reporter asks David how he feels that he gave his former girlfriend HIV.

“I feel okay,” answers David. In the same interview, he admits having raped a total of 21 or 24 women.

Powerful guy

Asked if he uses protection, David said “No… I didn’t use any protection…I know I’m HIV positive so I want to spread that HIV. I feel good because I can’t die alone.”

He then tells the reporter that he can’t stay 3 days without sex because he is “a powerful guy”.