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South Africa’s Mental Health Policy Framework and Strategic Plan lapsed in 2020. The National Department of Health now says it expects the revised and updated Policy Framework and Plan to be in place in the next financial year. Tiyese Jeranji spoke to experts and activists about what the laps.
National spokesperson of the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa, Sibongiseni Delihlazo, says, “This is a ticking time-bomb that is just waiting to blow up in the face of South Africans.”