The chairperson of the board of Durban and Coastal Mental Health, Sthandiwe Mkhize, has labelled Tuesday’s staff protest against mismanagement and “corruption” as an illegal strike.
on Tuesday that angry staff members and relatives of those who rely on the non-profit organisation, protested at its Sherwood headquarters.
They alleged that key members of management were “blatantly neglecting and abusing” people with mental disabilities, leaving them without food, nursing and with inadequate hygiene because of the non-payment of service providers. TimesLIVE has previously reported on allegations of a looming mental health care crisis — similar to the
tragedy — in the province, with the organisation teetering on the edge of bankruptcy for the first time in its 80-year history, after the “take-over” of the board under the chairmanship of former attorney Sipho Shezi in 2019.He claims he resigned, but Mkhize, who took the reins in March, said he had been ousted and was under investigation.
The protesters said that while both the provincial departments of health and social services, which subsidise DCMH, had set up a team to investigate allegations of corruption and mismanagement and a report had been presented to them, no action had been taken.
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