Life Esidimeni families remain hopeful of criminal prosecutions
The families of the Life Esidimeni tragedy remain hopeful that someone will end up serving time for the death of their loved ones.
Tuesday marked a year since Justice Dikgang Moseneke made his ruling in the Life Esidimeni Arbitration case.
A total of 144 psychiatric patients died after being moved from Life Esidimeni centres to unlicensed NGOs across Gauteng.
People were moved without documentation to facilities with no food, no beds and no medication.
Spokesperson for the affected families, Christine Nxumalo, says the healing the process has not been easy.
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"The fact there have no criminal charges against all these people who actually did this to our loved ones, that has been very difficult for closure and for healing."
Nxumalo says they have not received an update from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), but will be setting up a meeting soon.
"We are worried that maybe there is nothing but we're hopeful that they do have something that they can actually put forward and start with criminal charges.
"We actually had planned to do that at the beginning of the year but we realised that from the meeting we had with them last year they did say the first half of 2019 so we had actually given ourselves until the end of March to get some kind of feedback. We will be writing a letter to just follow up with that meeting and get a sense of how far they've come."
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