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The text of an address prepared for the 40th anniversary celebration of the founding of the United Democratic Front, held in Johannesburg:
Programme Directors, Mr President, Friends, Colleagues, former comrades in the struggle, fellow South Africans, and all who hold the freedom of this country close to their hearts:
Greetings to you from Cape Town. Apologies for not being with you in person. It's of course a working day for me, and the factory in which we build hope is particularly busy on a Sunday -- today I was at the Tutu family's current parish, St Oswald's Church in Milnerton.
Celebrations are about, or ought to be about, looking at where we come from, where we are today and what we want to become in the future. My input will attempt to follow that format, ending with seeking hope for the future.
Until today 40 years ago, I was a relatively quiet, science student who enjoyed tennis and squash and fun at varsity. Then I joined my fellow Wits students and came from Johannesburg on a bus to Cape Town, where at the Rocklands Civic Centre in Mitchells Plain, the formation of the UDF was not only about our political freedom, but became a critical part of my own conscientisation. Every kilometre in that bus was fraught with tension, the possibility of arrest, of being t
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Interview: Dr William Malegapuru Makgoba
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Malegapuru Makgoba
South African immunologist, physician, public health advocate and academic
Malegapuru William Makgoba (born in Sekhukhune, South Africa) is a leading South Africanimmunologist, physician, public health advocate, academic and former vice-chancellor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In he was recognised as "a pioneer in higher education transformation",[1] by being awarded the Order of Mapungubwe in Silver.
Academic career
[edit]Makgoba received an MBChB degree from the University of Natal Medical School in with merit in medicine. In he was named the first black Nuffield Dominion Fellow to the University of Oxford,[2] where he completed his DPhil degree in human immunogenetics in under Professor Sir Andrew McMichael.[3] The title of his thesis was "Studies on the polymorphism of HLA class II antigens".
He went on to become the first senior registrar to fellow expatriate South African and President of Royal College of Physicians of London, Sir Raymond Hoffenberg, in
He was Reader in Molecular Endocrinology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School London (–94) He was the first black South African to be selected to the prestigious National Institute of Health's Fogarty Visiting Programme in the late s.
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