South Africa: Madness and Civilisation – Memorialising the Lives of Institutionalised Individuals Through Poetry

22nd October 2025
[Daily Maverick] The 150th anniversary of Fort England Psychiatric Hospital makes it South Africa's oldest psychiatric facility. Rory du Plessis's poetry collection, Automaton(tik), memorialises the lives of 25 individuals who were institutionalised there in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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