Background: In South Africa, one in five adolescents tries to commit suicide.Suicide attempts continue to rise.One-to-one semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore psychosocial factors of past suicide attempts among suicide survivors in Limpopo province, South Africa.Methods: A total of 14 adolescents (8 girls and 6 boys) were interviewed.Results: Lack of knowledge of available counsellors, conflicts in interpersonal relationships, perceived accusations of negative behaviour, inadequate social support, substance use, past family and peer suicide attempts, and poor living circumstances were factors found to be related with suicide attempts.Conclusion: The fact that lack of knowledge of the availability of counsellors was identified as a major barrier for youth to access help, suggests that health promotion awareness campaigns which provide information on where young people with suicide thoughts could find help need to be conducted.The Government should establish psychological counselling services in schools or community to assist the adolescents during the period when they are struggling with problems before attempting suicide.Family counselling should be offered in order to improve strained relationships in families of suicide attempters.