# Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Sindisiwe Chikunga, is calling for urgent societal, institutional, and community-based interventions to tackle the escalating mental health crisis affecting men and boys across the country. She has described this as “a silent national emergency.” The department’s spokesperson, Cassius Selala, says most men continue to suffer in silence due to damaging social norms that discourage emotional vulnerability and seeking help:
Minister Chikunga says the mental health crisis affecting men and boys is a silent national emergency [SOUND]
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