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Suspended mental health director to testify at Esidimeni hearing

One of the three key witnesses in the deaths of 143 mentally ill patients, suspended Gauteng Mental Health Director Makgabo Manamela is expected to testify when the Life Esidimeni hearings resume in Parktown, Johannesburg on Monday morning. Manamela, former Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu and suspended Head of Department Barney Selebano are regarded as the key decision makers in the bungled relocation of the patients. Manamela was subpoenaed to testify at […]

today20 November 2017

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Appeal halts Esidimeni disciplinary hearings

The disciplinary hearings of two department officials fingered in the Health Ombudsman's Esidimeni report have been halted after Head of Department Ephraim Selebano and Director for Mental Health Makgabo Manamela appealed against the findings. The report found former Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu, Selebano and Manamela as key players in a decision to remove psychiatric patients from Life Health Esidimeni facilities. This resulted in the deaths of more than 100 patients […]

today8 May 2017

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Esidimeni death toll passes 100: Health Ombudsman

The death toll among mentally-ill patients in Gauteng has continued to rise with the latest figure passing 100. That's according to the Health Ombudsman, Professor Malegapuru Makgoba, who is briefing a joint Committee on Health from Parliament and the National Council of Provinces (NCOP). The mentally-ill patients were transferred from Life Esidimeni to various Gauteng NGOs which do not have valid licenses. Makgoba says 80% of the deaths occurred in […]

today16 February 2017

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Esidimeni, Bromwell Street, Christo Wiese Reveal SA’s Ruthless War Against The Poor

OPINION by Sipho Hlonwane It has been a grotesque week in South Africa. Where to start. Perhaps with the news that in order to save some cash, the Gauteng department of health shipped off 94 people who were in need of medical assistance to their deaths. There's no other conclusion to draw, if you read the health ombudsman's report on the man-made disaster that was the decision to move patients […]

today6 February 2017

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