Duaene Truter, 51, died after being stabbed multiple times while his 18-year-old son escaped with minor injuries. A Kirkwood farm manager was stabbed to death while his wife and son managed to escape the attack on Sunday night. The farm attack happened at about 7pm on the Dunbrody Estates Farm in Kirkwood. Duaene Truter, 51,..
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It is starting to ‘rain blood’ with all the attacks the past week – (5) Kirkwood farm manager killed
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Terrorist attacked a farm, this time in the Eastern Province, Kirkwood, and this time it was fatal
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A manhunt is underway for three men following a farm attack in the Kirkwood area in which a 51-year-old man was killed. Police spokesperson, Captain Gerda Swart, said the incident happened on the farm Dunbrody when three men attacked a couple and their son early Sunday night. “According to police information, the family was at..
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Mental health to be ‘outsourced’ in Eastern Cape
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The Eastern Cape department of health has published its R120-million tender to outsource chronic mental healthcare in the province – and has put emphasis on the reintegration of mental health patients in their communities.
Apart from chronic care‚ service providers have also been asked to tender for community-based initiatives to achieve this.
Seven-hundred adult and 180 paediatric mental health patients are now being cared for in Life Esidimeni centres in Kirkwood and Bethelsdorp.
The tender documents show that the department is also seeking to distribute beds for chronic mental health patients across the province if possible.
Long-term patients are currently housed at the 700-bed Life Esidimeni Kirkwood facility and the 180 children at Life Esidimeni’s Algoa Frail Care Centre in Bethelsdorp.
Provincial health spokesperson Lwandile Sicwetsha declined to elaborate on any of the information in the tender documents‚ saying this would compromise the
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