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Tag: Kai Singiswa

The Intersection of Suicide and Self-Immolation as acts of protest: The case of Kai Singiswa and Aaron Bushnell.

Posted on February 28, 2024February 28, 2024 by Media for Justice

By Gillian Schutte. As the mother of a teenage boy who tragically took his own life after being wrongfully accused and subsequently cancelled by his peers, and in light of the recent…

A guide to grief: As told from the ‘inexperience’ of the living

Posted on May 21, 2023April 4, 2025 by Media for Justice

By Alice Mbeya As a fledgling, I had constantly been guided into knowing that there was a heaven and hell with one true God and that your place on earth and the…

KOP, Cancel Culture & the Suicide of Kai Singiswa

Posted on January 5, 2023April 4, 2025 by Media for Justice

By Gillian Schutte *Some names have been changed to protect people’s identities.* In the last few years we have witnessed many youths taking their lives after finding themselves on the receiving end…

Life of Kai. A mother’s reflection on her son’s suicide.

Posted on February 27, 2020April 20, 2021 by Media for Justice

By: Gillian Schutte Suicide is on the increase – especially among the youth.   Statistics from the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG) show that 9% of all youth deaths are due…

The angry man and the rookie actor. How Odwa Shweni fell to his death.

Posted on February 24, 2020May 4, 2023 by Media for Justice

After almost two years of lies and malicious speculation on social and mainstream media, I have decided to give our account of Odwa Shweni’s tragic death on our film set in April 2018. This cruel media onslaught has not only caused us terrible trauma, it also impacted negatively on the life of our son, Kai, who died through suicide in December 2019 after months of anxiety and depression, much of which was brought about by the many false allegations against us, anxiety exacerbated when one of his Wits lectures used the factually inaccurate City Press article in a lesson as an example on how not to make a film, something we only became aware of after his suicide.

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