Maverick Citizen is running a series of weekly portraits of those who died in the Life Esidimeni tragedy. Harriet Perlman, Darnell Nxumalo and photographer Mark Lewis interview families as part of an ongoing memorial and advocacy website.
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.
This road was unexpected, hard and emotionally draining. Sometimes, I did not know whether I was coming or going. What made it hard was watching my niece come to terms with her mom never being able to live with us again… and it is not going to get better.