Qedani Mahlangu says she will testify at hearing, after judge threatens subpoena
The former Gauteng health MEC was the leader behind the project to close Life Esidimeni homes and move 1‚712 psychiatric patients to ill-equipped NGOs or their family homes
Former Gauteng health MEC Qedani Mahlangu has told a lawyer she will voluntarily testify at the arbitration hearing probing the deaths of more than 100 state psychiatric hearing. Advocate Tebogo Hutamo told the hearing that the state had made contact with Mahlangu and she could not attend now as she was writing exams‚ but would come in November or December. Mahlangu was the leader behind the project to close Life Esidimeni homes and move 1‚712 psychiatric patients into ill-equipped nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) or their family homes. By February this year‚ 118 mentally ill people had died in NGOs and 141 had died in total by September.
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