The Life Esidimeni inquest stands as a crucial accountability process for a national tragedy that ought never to have happened and should never happen again. Here, they summarise and assess progress at the inquest since October last year. They previously wrote about the first months of the inqu.
The Life Esidimeni Inquest stands as a crucial accountability process for a national tragedy that ought never to have happened and should never happen again, write Julia Chaskalson and Mbali Baduza.
For the bereaved families to get closure and justice, the court needs to get into the meat of what happened when patients were transferred from Life Esidimeni into unprepared NGOs.
Adult mental healthcare patients slept in children's cots at an NGO they were moved to from Life Esidimeni, an inquest into the death of 144 mental healthcare patients has heard.