One of the Life Esidimeni patients, who died hundreds of kilometres from his family, had his burial rites disturbed by Gauteng department of health officials who wanted to do a late postmortem.
JournalistProtests during the testimony of former Gauteng health MEC Qedani Mahlangu at the Life Esidimeni arbitration hearings on January 22 2018 in Johannesburg.One of the Life Esidimeni patients, who died hundreds of kilometres away from his family, had his burial rites disturbed by Gauteng department of health officials who wanted to do a late postmortem.
Hlatshwayo had been a patient at Life Esidimeni for 16 years before he was moved without his family's knowledge.
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