“As I have said in public that we will not take patients who certainly need to be cared for. As a caring government we will never take such a decision to expose patients to danger.”
November 2015 - email from Qedani Mahlangu, former MEC Gauteng Department of Health to Marion Conway. Marion had emailed her, about the rumours that government was closing down Life Esidimeni Randfontein. Marion was worried because her mother, who was schizophrenic, lived there.