Info News from MindFreedom South Africa Document Actions Print this Here’s some of the news, from latest to oldest, from MindFreedom South Africa. mf-south-africa-news-items News Release: Cape Town Declaration Signed at Robben Island Gateway (Published: Apr 05, 2008 07:26 PM) MindFreedom South Africa issued this news release in March 2008. The Sun City Hypothesis –…
Info MindFreedom South Africa launched a new project in the summer of 2007, at the founding meeting of the Maitland Ubuntu Centre for Treatment: Alternatives in Mental Health and Psychrights Advocacy. The Ubuntu Centre was conceived as a means for helping to heal the racially-charged divisions of South Africa’s apartheid past, marked by suffering of…
This following essay, by one of the organizers of MindFreedom South Africa, was written in the wake of the Mad Pride 2007 vigil in Cape Town South Africa. David Robert Lewis calls for a broader social movement that includes cognitive rights, as well as bodily and psychological integrity, so that South Africans can feel safe…
Mad Pride South Africa 2007 Cape Town, South Africa reports about a Mad Pride 2007 event. MAD PRIDE CAPE TOWN REPORT by David Robert Lewis ethnopunk@yahoo.co.uk A small crowd gathered to celebrate Cape Town and South Africa’s first Mad Pride near District Six, site of forced removals during the apartheid era. Although few in number,…