The SA Depression Anxiety Group (Saga) warned on Wednesday that policemen under severe stress needed counselling to prevent them from becoming “trigger-happy”. “What we need to be looking at, [is] training police, empowering the police to recognise their own stresses, empowering them to be psychologically and mentally healthy so that they don’t take anger and [...]

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            I was deeply saddened yesterday when I read the story of the freak accident where Jan-Hendrik van der Merwe, who is former Springbok captain Corné Krige’s brother-in-law, accidentally drove over his children. It was reported earlier today that both parents are receiving trauma counselling/ couseling. It is of the [...]

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