The Eastern Cape’s Tower Hospital was billed as the country’s next "Life Esidimeni".
Health ombud Malegapuru Makgoba reveals the results of a new investigation into alleged patient rights violations at Tower Psychiatric Hospital.
When we got our independence, we did not ask ourselves what kind of ethics this new country needed. SA’s health ombud reflects on his first big case.
Late UCT Medical School dean Bongani Mayosi pioneered the response to a little known but common heart disease at home and across the continent.
The pair continues to survive politically despite being implicated in deadly mismanagement and graft during their tenures as Gauteng health MECs.
Three years later, almost a dozen patients are still missing.
Saving lives — and losing them — may be all in a day’s work for health workers, but if you think it doesn’t take its toll, listen to these doctors.
Saving lives — and losing them — may be all in a day’s work for health workers, but if you think it doesn’t take it’s toll, listen to these doctors.
Speaking more than one language could lead to better tests scores and even being a more empathetic person.
Why the World Bank may have peddled some dodgy facts about this mental health condition.
Are social media algorithms designed to prey the mental health of women and people of colour?
Catch every moment as Life Esidimeni families are told how much money they will get for the loss of their loved ones.
The arbitration ruling specifies that both Constitutional and general damages have to be paid.
The families of the nearly 150 mental health patients who died in the Life Esidimeni tragedy will know today how much they will be compensated.
Those who oversaw the removal of mental health patients could face the full wrath of the law as could those standing by as KZN’s cancer care fails.
‘Families should be compensated for trauma, but not for what the deceased went through’, says state advocate.
We used to believe our brains couldn’t be changed. Now we believe they can – if we want it enough. But is that true?
Gauteng Premier David Makhura claims he didn’t know #LifeEsidimeni patients would be transferred to the care of NGOs. Perhaps he just didn’t listen.
Qedani Mahlangu’s department paid almost R60-million to the law firm that would later represent her in the run-up to arbitration.
Did the former MEC move from playing the blame game to playing the victim?
The former Health MEC claims her subordinates withheld information from her. But she’s being accused
of misleading the legislature.
Mahlangu didn’t know many of the details of the doomed mental health project but says she deserves the credit for instituting the ombud investigation.
Accusations fly as the embattled former health MEC finally testifies at the ongoing arbitration hearings.
The former Gauteng Health MEC is expected to take the stand on Monday when she will finally face irate families who are tired of waiting for answers.
One in four Zimbabweans suffers from mental illness, but untrained female health workers are setting a new benchmark for the treatment of patients.
Suspended head of Gauteng health Barney Selebano’s court bid to avoid testifying at the ongoing arbitration could keep him off the stand for months.
The inherited shame of schizophrenia leaves the writer wondering whether he will be next
The ‘nagging little monsters’ of anxiety taunt us as we journey on the pursuit of endless #goals
Diliza Moabi is passionate about TV and has spent the greater part of his life making his dreams come true
"I wanted to show it all to her, so she could fix me. I needed her to fix me".
"Who knew that I might share a similar condition with the person I was taught to shame?"
"Like the space between bricks, cement fills the connections between my hips and feet".