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South Africa: Life Esidimeni - Family Offered Food Parcels After Losing Stepson
News24Wire, 9 November 2017
A distraught woman who lost her stepson in the Life Esidimeni tragedy was offered food parcels after his death. Read more »
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South Africa: Suspended Health Head Fears Incriminating Himself At Life Esidimeni Hearings
News24Wire, 9 November 2017
Suspended Gauteng Health Department head Tiego Ephraim Selebano has gone to court over a subpoena requesting him to appear at Life Esidimeni arbitration hearings next month. Read more »
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South Africa: Life Esidimeni - Qedani Mahlangu to Testify in January
News24Wire, 10 November 2017
Former Gauteng MEC for health Qedani Mahlangu's legal representatives have told the Life Esidimeni hearings that she would be willing to come testify in January 2018. Read more »
Suspended South African Health Head to Avoid #Esidimeni Hearings?
State advocate Tebogo Hutamo has said that Dr Tiego Selebano, the suspended head of the Gauteng health department, approached the high court to urgently set aside the subpoena which requested him to testify at the Life Esidimeni arbitration hearings. Selebano was identified as one of three key witnesses to present testimony into the deaths of 141 mentally ill patients who died after their transfer from Life Esidimeni to 27 unlicensed NGOs.
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9 November 2017
Esidimeni Hearings Resumes With More Stories of Pain and Suffering
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The Esidimeni hearings resumed today with more stories of pain and suffering. Grieving families testified about the shocking conditions of unlicensed ... see more »
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Ethel Ncube, the owner of Precious Angels, one of the unlicensed nongovernmental organisations that housed mental health patients who died after their transfer from Life Esidimeni, ... Read more »
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Levy Mosenogi, the director of planning, policy and research at the Gauteng health department, has apologised to the families of the 118 psychiatric patients who died after they ... Read more »
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The deaths of 118 psychiatric patients who were transferred from Life Esidimeni to 27 other non-governmental organisations have been described as one of "the greatest cause of ... Read more »
