​​October is Mental Health Awareness Month and on Thursday (10 October) the annual World Mental Health Day​ is celebrated. In opinion pieces in Die Burger and Cape Argus respectively, Prof Lizette Rabe from the Department of Journalism and Fanele Ndebele, a final-year law student, discuss why it is so important to pay more attention to mental health. Click on the links below to read the articles.

• ​Prof Lizette Rabe (Die Burger – English translation)
• ​Fanele Ndebele (Cape Argus)