Bongani Mayosi's suicide: the latest marker of an intractable public health crisis
By Nkosikhulule Xhawulengweni Nyembezi | Published Aug 2, 2018
The suicide death of Professor Bongani Mayosi on July 27 – cardiologist, researcher and dean of the health sciences faculty at the University of Cape Town – was not simply a tragedy in the academia. It was the latest marker of an intractable South African public health crisis that has been unfolding in slow motion for a generation.