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Life Esidimeni: arrest warrant for former mental health boss after non-appearance
Former head of mental health in Gauteng Makgabo Manamela’s absence from the Life Esidimeni inquest this week has tried the court’s patience, and after...
SIU sets sights on NGOs that benefited from Life Esidimeni tragedy
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is taking on the NGOs which scored financially from the transfer of mental healthcare patients in Gauteng during the...
Life Esidimeni inquest: ‘He vomited for four weeks and then he starved to death’
Jaco Stols, one of the 144 victims of the Life Esidimeni tragedy, vomited continuously for four weeks before dying of hunger and thirst, said...
Life Esidimeni inquiry: NGO had grown men sleeping in baby cots
Adult mental healthcare patients slept in children’s cots at an NGO to which they were moved after their removal from Life Esidimeni, heard the...
Dozens of former Life Esidimeni patients remain missing
Almost 60 former Life Esidimeni patients are still missing after the botched move of more than 1,000 patients from its psychiatric facilities to ill-equipped,...
Life Esidimeni inquest: Judge rules on court’s right to steer proceedings
In the ongoing Life Esidimeni inquest to determine who should be held criminally responsible for the deaths of at least 144 mental patients transferred...
No inspections or process followed, says ex-Life Esidimeni official
There were no proper procedures followed in the transfer of mental health patients from Life Esidimeni to inadequate NGOs, according to the sixth witness...
Inquest roundup: Life Esidimeni leader wanted to stop patient transfers
The man tasked with leading the Life Esidimeni project, in terms of which a number of mental health patients had to be moved to...
Buck-passing at Life Esidimeni inquest
The former Gauteng Health Department deputy DG Dr Richard Lebethe says it would have been hard for officials to foresee that patients would pick...
Life Esidimeni inquest: one nurse to 40 patients
The Life Esidimeni inquest has heard how mentally ill patients at one of their facilities had 15 nurses caring for about 600 patients, as...