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SIU recovers funds from Life Esidimeni facilities
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has recovered money from five NGOs that unduly benefited from Life Esidimeni patients’ Sassa grants six years ago, all of...
Life Esidimeni: former Gauteng mental health boss denies concealing information
The former director of Gauteng’s Mental Health Services, Dr Makgabo Manamela, has denied a claim by former Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu that she...
Life Esidimeni transfers not practical, but officials forced to comply, inquest hears
On her second day on the stand at the Life Esidimeni inquest, being heard virtually in the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) Dr Makgabo Manamela,...
Health managers point fingers at politicians in Life Esidimeni inquest
Former Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi wanted to shut down the NGOs where mental health patients were dying, the inquest into the deaths of...
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...