1) notes that World Suicide Prevention Day was last Thursday, 10 September 2009, and that research by Professor Lourens Schlebusch of the Department of Behavioural Medicine at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Natal, on suicidal behaviour in South Africa shows that stress and suicidal behaviour among black South Africans, for whom lower rates were reported in the past, is a neglected area of concern and an increasingly serious problem and that suicidal behaviour is under-researched among the majority black population, compared to other major ethnic groups;