Dr Mnikathi Contact Details

Dr Londeka Mnikathi is a psychiatrist in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, admitting at Mediclinic Newcastle. Psychiatrists are thinly spread outside the major cities, and northern KwaZulu-Natal has few, so this practice serves a wide area.

Official contact channels

Rooms: 067 044 6413
No landline and no email address are published. This single mobile number is the only contact route on the practice record.

Expect that number to go to voicemail during consultations. Psychiatric appointments run long by design – a first assessment is often an hour – so the phone is unattended for extended periods. Leave a message rather than calling repeatedly.

If someone is in immediate danger of harming themselves, this is not the right number. Call an ambulance on 10177, or 112 from a mobile phone, or go to the nearest emergency unit. The South African Depression and Anxiety Group also runs national crisis helplines, published on its own website, which are staffed outside office hours.

What this organisation provides

Psychiatry – the medical diagnosis and treatment of mental illness, including the prescribing and management of psychiatric medication.
Core competencies published by Mediclinic: psychiatric services, and depression and anxiety.
A psychiatrist is not the same as a psychologist. A psychiatrist is a medical doctor and can prescribe; a psychologist provides therapy and cannot. Many people need both, and a referral naming the wrong one is a common reason treatment stalls.
Qualifications published by Mediclinic: MBChB, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2005; FC Psych (SA), Colleges of Medicine, 2014.
She also writes on mental health for the Mediclinic health hub, including pieces on self-care and on the history of mental illness treatment.
Admits at Mediclinic Newcastle.

Address and operating information

24 Beardall Street, Central, Newcastle, 2940. The postal address is the same as the street address.
The rooms are on Beardall Street in central Newcastle rather than inside the hospital.
Consulting hours are not published. Psychiatric practices work weekday business hours by appointment.
HPCSA registration number: MP0640247
Practice number: 0220000708569, which your medical scheme needs for claims.

Support and escalation routes

Check your mental health benefit before the first appointment. Schemes fund psychiatry differently from other specialities, often from a limited annual benefit, and out-of-hospital psychiatric consultations are among the first benefits to run out.
Major depression, bipolar mood disorder and schizophrenia are Prescribed Minimum Benefits on the chronic disease list, which means a scheme must fund their diagnosis and treatment to the defined level even when day-to-day benefits are exhausted. Where a scheme refuses on the grounds that a mental health benefit is depleted, that is worth challenging, because a PMB obligation is separate from the discretionary benefit.
Complaints about professional conduct or standard of care go to the Health Professions Council of South Africa on 012 389 9300. Scheme disputes and PMB refusals go to the Council for Medical Schemes after the scheme’s own appeal. Involuntary admission is governed by the Mental Health Care Act and has its own review process through a Mental Health Review Board.

Sources

Mediclinic Southern Africa doctor directory profile for Dr Londeka Mnikathi, mediclinic.co.za, read 5 September 2026 – speciality, rooms and postal address, the single published telephone number, core competencies, qualifications, HPCSA registration number, practice number and admitting hospital.
HPCSA published switchboard number; published national emergency numbers.