Makgato Hails Tau As A Gift To Botswana, Africa :: Mmegi Online

In most cases, people with mental health problems suffer at the hands of society, colleagues at work and sometimes their families. This usually leaves these people vulnerable and feeling unloved.

Addressing the audience at Mmakgosi Live, a poetry night held at Travel Lodge in Gaborone on Friday, the Minister of Health and Wellness, Dorcas Makgato pledged to support the poetess, Mmakgosi Tau, a bipolar and depression patient’s initiative to raise awareness on mental health illness through poetry.

“It gives me great honour to have been invited to officiate at this noble occasion; the day which marks a creative explosion of social development, mental health advocacy and personal development through poetry song and fashion, particularly from an individual who has experienced and succeeded in dealing with bipolar and depression.

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