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Nolwazi Zondo, CEO of Rehearse & Release and Drama Nolwazi Zondo, CEO of Rehearse & Release and Drama Practitioner at AFDA, presents the findings of the Family Stigma group at the SOYA 2026 Re-Imagined Ministerial Youth Dialogue.


The shame of being seen. A culture where asking for help doesn't exist. Treatment that fits a textbook — not a person, not a community.


These are the findings. They're going into the Mandate, and they travel with Heal SA to the State of the Youth Address on 15 June at the Homecoming Theatre, District Six, Cape Town.

To attend the SOYA Register here: https://wkf.ms/4nBttQ9



#TheMandateZA #HealSA #SOYA2026 #YouthMentalHealth #AccessAndEquity
We all know someone. A cousin who can't stop. A ne We all know someone. A cousin who can't stop. A neighbour whose drinking is getting worse. A friend who disappeared into something darker.

In South Africa, substance use affects 1 in 5 people, but the treatment gap sits at 75%. Most people who need help never get it. Not because they don't want it. Because shame gets there first.

You don't have to face this alone. Talk to us.
💬 066 323 6869

#HealSA #SubstanceUse #addictionisanillness
Unemployment is a mental health crisis. We just d Unemployment is a mental health crisis.

We just don't talk about it that way.

In South Africa, 60.9% of young people aged 15–24 are unemployed. That's not a labour statistic. That's millions of young people waking up every morning without purpose, structure, or hope, and carrying that weight largely in silence.

Financial stress doesn't stay financial. It becomes anxiety, depression, and shame. It fractures families, isolates individuals, and, in a country that already struggles to provide adequate mental health support, it pushes people further from the help they need.

At Heal SA, we see this every day. Young people who aren't struggling because something is wrong with them. They're struggling because a system has failed them, and no one is naming what that failure does to the mind.

Unemployment is economic. But its consequences are deeply psychological.

We need to start treating it like both.

heal-sa.org.za | If this resonates, share it, someone needs to read it today.

#MentalHealth #YouthUnemployment #EconomicAnxiety #HealSA #SouthAfrica #youthmonth
We're welcoming a special addition to the Heal SA We're welcoming a special addition to the Heal SA team this June. 

Troy L. Cleaton, a 2025–2027 Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship for Public Service recipient, is joining us as an intern from the USA for his Summer Voyage — and he's chosen Heal SA as his home base during Youth Month.

For the next few weeks, he'll be working alongside our team on youth mental health advocacy, community outreach, and the programmes we run for young South Africans.

We love that his journey brought him here. Ubuntu in action.

#YouthMonth #HealSA #MentalHealthMatters #summervoyage
Mahlodi Letsie, founder of Bare Mind, presents the Mahlodi Letsie, founder of Bare Mind, presents the findings of the Accessibility group at the SOYA 2026 Re-Imagined Ministerial Youth Dialogue.

Their focus: mental health services for young people, who can access them, who can't, and why that gap exists.

These aren't just discussion points. They're going into the Mandate — the collective findings Heal SA carries to the State of the Youth Address in Cape Town on 15 June.

The room spoke. Now it travels.

#TheMandateZA #HealSA #SOYA2026 #YouthMentalHealth #accessandequity
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