"Who knew that I might share a similar condition with the person I was taught to shame?"
As the hearings continue this week, Laura Lopez Gonzalez speaks to Nelisiwe Msomi about the arbitration process.
Laura Lopez Gonzalez speaks to Tim Modise about who might be held accountable for the tragedy.
Eleven Gauteng health employees were singled out for censure. Now, only two have been suspended and garnered an alleged R1.3-million in wages.
The sister of a Life Esidimeni patient suffered a second blow when her niece died after collapsing on the day the hearings started.
History has shown that good people do bad things when they’re told. Here’s why.
At least 141 mental health patients. As officials take the stand as part of arbitration hearings, a disturbing thread runs through their testimonies.
Owner of Pretoria organisation Precious Angels breaks down and dodges queries amid questions around deaths.
Social worker says mental health patients’ lives could have been saved if senior officials visited facilities. Bhekisisa has evidence they did.
Society must stay out of young women’s decision whether to have babies or not.
A new mother recounts how psychiatric care that nurtured her bond with her baby helped heal her mania.
Looking after your own wellbeing should be about self-affirmation and not costly facials
Families say many are still waiting for results of autopsies performed last year.
Children who experience discrimination may be more at risk of mental and physical ill-health.
What if we thought of suicide as the outcome of a terminal illness instead of the outcome of an action?
The creator of ‘The Foxy Five’ deserves praise, but the writing could improve.
People living in cities and downwind of coal power stations breathe in high levels of nitrogen dioxide, which does significant damage to wellbeing.
Medical aids cover far less for psychiatric illnesses than they do for physical ailments.
War-torn Somalia spent more than two decades without a working Parliament, so why are Somalis happier than South Africans?
Eighty two of the Chibok school girls, kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria three years ago, have been released. But what now?
Gauteng health department hopes to avoid legal battle as more bodies are discovered.
Key players say the culture of government created by Jacob Zuma allowed the deaths of 94 health patients.
Almost 100 Gauteng mental health patients died after MEC Qedani Mahlangu’s disastrous decision, the health ombud has found.
The pain of bereavement is supposed to ease with time. When it doesn’t, psychiatrists call it ‘complicated grief’ and it can be treated.
This year wasn’t pretty but from its ashes may rise important scientific advances that could change the course of history.
Warning, this article contains sensitive details about Father Christmas. Kids, look away.
After Sierra Leone’s civil war, money poured in for mental health services. But a decade later, there’s little left to help Ebola’s victims.
The former Gauteng health MEC says it wasn’t her job to visit organisations prior to transferring state patients into their care.
Community mentalhealth care can be better for patients and health systems if it’s done right.
Find out how one organisation is making it work.
Gauteng health MEC Qedani Mahlangu breaks her silence over the department’s deadly decision to transfer psychiatric patients.
A decision by the Gauteng department of health has left at least 36 dead but has the scandal lifted the lid on the horrors of mental healthcare?
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