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Loss upon loss: Christine Nxumalo holds a picture of her and her late sister Virginia Machpelah and niece Shanice. (Mark Lewis)
FRIDAY

The heartbreaking journeys of Life Esidimeni families

Extracts from Life Esidimeni: Portraits of Lives Lost

  • Harriet Perlman
6 min read
Former Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu testifies during the Life Esidimeni arbitration hearings on January 22, 2018 in Johannesburg. , South Africa. (Photo by Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images/Getty Images)
DAVID MAKHURA

Remembering the Life Esidimeni tragedy

Section27, representing 44 of the bereaved families, has called for those responsible to be charged with culpable homicide

  • Umamah Bakharia
8 min read
DIKGANG MOSENEKE

Life Esidimeni: Waiting for justice is an injustice

We are a nation of inquests, commissions and ad hoc committees. Not action.

  • Kiri Rupiah
  • Luke Feltham
4 min read
Former Gauteng premier David Makhura, who runs the ANC political school, said there was a need for the party to both educate its existing members and ensure that those who joined in future were “in good standing in the community”.
BANDILE MASUKU

Corruption forces health shake-up in Gauteng

Dr Thembi Mokgethi appointed as new health MEC as premier seeks to stop Covid-19 malfeasance

  • Khaya Koko
2 min read
Mahlangu was hauled before the integrity committee for her role in the Life Esidimeni tragedy, which resulted in the deaths of at least 144 psychiatric patients. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
ANC GAUTENG

Mahlangu and Hlongwa to remain members of ANC Gauteng PEC

​Embattled ANC Gauteng leaders Qedani Mahlangu and Brian Hlongwa are to remain members of the party’s PEC, the ANC in the province said

  • Tshidi Madia
3 min read
“Given what they’ve done recently, it would probably be our biggest win of the last couple of years,” said Scottish coach Gregor Townsend. (Craig Brough/Reuters)
ANC

ANC eyes youth and minority voters

The party is turning to new voters to reverse a decline in its support ahead of the 2019 general elections

  • Dineo Bendile
4 min read
“There was an offer from Saudi to invest in Denel, not buy a stake. At some point we did consider it, but we did not come [to] any conclusion,” Sisulu said. (David Harrison/M&G)
ANC GAUTENG

‘Do the right thing’

The ANC’s Gauteng secretary says ‘revolutionary morality’ demands that the controversial leaders must put people first

  • Dineo Bendile
4 min read
Former head of the Gauteng department of health Barney Selebano (pictured) may lose his license to practise medicine after an inqury into his involvement in the Life Esidimeni deaths in September. (Joyrene Kramer, Section27)
BARNEY SELEBANO

How many doctors and nurses will lose their licenses over #LifeEsidimeni?

The nation’s nursing body says one official has been hauled before it.

  • Nelisiwe Msomi
4 min read
Labour federation Cosatu, like many progressive South Africans, is concerned by the plight of workers at the Mail & Guardian — and this legendary newspaper itself.
ANC GAUTENG

Makhura’s problem: His provincial committee

Makhura reportedly supported a group that backed former Johannesburg mayor Parks Tau as his deputy

  • Dineo Bendile
2 min read
Former Health MEC ?Qedani Mahlangu’s election into the Provincial Executive Committee has been called out for dishonouring the memories of those who have passed in the Life Esidimeni tragedy. (Felix Dlangamandla, Gallo)
LIFE ESIDIMENI

​READ: #LifeEsidimeni families shocked and outraged at the re-election of Mahlangu

Former Health MEC ​Qedani Mahlangu is implicated in deadly mismanagement but still survives to be elected into the Provincial Executive Committee.

  • Bhekisisa Team Author
2 min read
The former national director of mental health says his Gauteng counterpart Makgabo Manamela (pictured) blocked national health department attempts to intervene in the Life Esidimeni tragedy in 2016. (Andronica Nedzamba)
BHEKISISA TEAM

Mahlangu, Hlongwa elected to top Gauteng ANC body

The pair continues to survive politically despite being implicated in deadly mismanagement and graft during their tenures as Gauteng health MECs.

  • Laura López González
  • Bhekisisa Team
3 min read
Mail & Gaurdian
AARON MOTSOALEDI

A very sick health dept

‘Cue the now all-too-familiar pattern of patronage — houses, overseas trips, spa treatments’

  • Editorial
1 min read
Mahlangu was hauled before the integrity committee for her role in the Life Esidimeni tragedy, which resulted in the deaths of at least 144 psychiatric patients. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
LIFE ESIDIMENI

#LifeEsidimeni: In six weeks we’ll know if Qedani Mahlangu will be prosecuted

After being awarded damages, distraught families want more: the former Gauteng Health MEC must face criminal charges.

  • Mia Malan
6 min read
BARNEY SELEBANO

No closure for Life Esidimeni without accountability says Maimane

The DA leader says the Gauteng Premier David Makhura, among others, should face consequences

  • Alex Mitchley
3 min read
(Felix Karlsson) Staff Photographer
DIKGANG MOSENEKE

Paper review: What’s making the headlines in today’s papers?

Stay up to date with what made the leads in some of the country’s daily’s

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read