June 14 2005 - Sapa -- Black South Africans are so stressed about their present living conditions under the ANC-regime that they are taking their own lives in unprecedented numbers. This past decade has seen a 48% increase in suicides among black people as more South Africans than ever before.
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Nowhere is this more harshly evident than in Umtata, in the Eastern Cape - the capitol of Thabo Mbeki's own Xhosa tribe's homeland -- where an academic found a suicide rate at 30 per 100,000 people -- almost twice the World Health Organisation's estimated global average of 16 per 100 000."More and more people are committing suicide," said Professor Banwari Meel, who has published five papers on suicide in the Umtata region."Female suicide in particular is increasing. In the last five years it has increased at least threefold."
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