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After 22-years of service as the Western Cape Provincial Chairperson for the Independent Electoral Commission, Reverend Courtney Sampson has called it a day.
Part I: An overhaul of tertiary education and regeneration in Africa is long overdue
By Firoz Khan on 12 May 2021
Towards the Regeneration of University and Public Policy in Africa: May tomorrow be more than just another name for today
Introduction: the poverty of theory
It was the occasion of Africa Day, 18
May 2108, at the University of Western Cape – home of iconic liberation struggle thinkers including Neville Alexander, Harold Wolpe and Jakes Gerwel. Students and faculty waited patiently in a large, packed lecture theatre for the keynote speaker, the “white African” intellectual, Ben Turok. The fierce and fearless champion of the poor entered the room to thunderous applause. He looked frail and weak. There was silence. He placed his notes on the table, he paused, he looked at us, and then the lion roared, students roaring louder.
Many South Africans with blood diseases and cancers are dying because they cannot find bone marrow donors.
Finding a suitable bone marrow donor is extremely difficult.
Hereditary matters in finding a match and donors are usually found within the patient’s population group.
But only 30% of donors are people of colour.
The South African Bone Marrow Registry is urgently seeking more people of colour to register as donors.
Great advances have been made and today most bone marrow donations are done through a non-invasive process.
The South African Bone Marrow Registry (SABMR) is urgently seeking more people of colour to register as donors to help give more South Africans a better shot at a second chance at life.