Key Findings Upon the investigation, the Ombud has established that: A total of ninety-four (94+) and not thirty-six (36) mentally ill patients (as initially and commonly reported publicly in the media) died between 23 March 2016 and 19 December 2016 in Gauteng Province. This total number of 94 s...

It appears that  author ZP Dala has been taken to a mental institution in reprisal for her comments about Salman Rushdie during the Time of the Writer Festival in Durban recently. Dala expressed admiration for Rushdie’s “literary style” and was subsequently attacked the next day, hit in the face...

Aubrey Levin, a former South Africa Defence Force chief psychiatrist who used electroshock therapy to "cure" homosexual soldiers during the apartheid regime, is on trial in Canada for allegedly sexually assaulting 10 male patients. A Calgary court was shown graphic video Thursday that was recorde...

Mary Maddock signs Cape Town declaration A GROUNDBREAKING declaration calling for an end to all forced and coerced psychiatric procedures and for the development of alternatives to psychiatry was signed at Cape Town ’s Robben Island Gateway in a ceremony held on Monday, March 24. Members of MindF...