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Professor Johannes Fagan
Head of the Division of
Otorhinolaryngology
It dawned upon me that had I turned
out my parachute, which was attached
not to me but to the microlight, I would’ve
fallen out and freefallen down to earth. I
would have most certainly not been here
with you tonight, celebrating my election to
the College of Fellows.”
Professor Jonathan Blackburn
Professor Haroon Bhorat
SARChI Chair in Applied Proteomics and
Chemical Biology and based in the Institute
of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine
Gone was the pure blue-skies
research that I’d carried out as a
junior academic. It was replaced by an
understanding that unmet biomedical
needs of patients and clinicians
represent a [powerful] starting point
for true translational research.”
Director of the Development Policy
Research Unit
The crucible moment came, almost
by chance, where I stumbled onto an
illegal BBC documentary. The interview I
was engaging with was slightly different
because it wasn’t a South African activist.
Instead, it was a researcher… in fact, he was
a UCT economist.”
Professor Mark Fleishman
Former director of the Centre for
Theatre, Dance and Performance
Studies and the Department
of Drama
My teacher, Professor Mavis
Taylor – literally on her deathbed –
leaned over to me and whispered,
‘It’s up to you now.’ What I think she
was referring was an injunction to
stay in the department at UCT and
to continue the process she had
initiated of what we would today call
transformation”
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