Remembering two great South Africans recently lost to suicide

By Felicity Duncan

Brilliant cardiologist, pioneering researcher and head of UCT's Department of Medicine and Groote Schuur Hospital Bongani Mayosi committed suicide at the end of July. Luminous campus rape activist and law student Khensani Maseko – just 23 years old – committed suicide in the first week of August.

While we can never understand their personal struggles or the feelings that drove them to suicide, we can all mourn the loss of two people who worked hard and made a difference in the world. South Africa needs people like Mayosi and Maseko – smart, skilled people who choose to do more than simply make money, but instead worked to help others and to fight injustice. We will all feel their absence, though we may not know it.

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