The double-storied main building in Dutch Colonial style housed a number of laboratories, each fitted out for a specific line of research such as bacteriology, zoology, chemistry, pathology etc. Hot and cold water, gas, ...

In Africa, protozoon parasites of the genus Trypanosoma are responsible for causing what is probably still the most important disease of domestic livestock in Africa south of the Sahara Desert i.e. African animal trypanosomosis ...

Dr Steyn obtained his BVSc degree in 1932 and was appointed GVO North Waterberg at the beginning of 1933. During 1934, after the Foot and Mouth campaign, he was transferred to Kimberley as GVO of the Northern Cape and ...

Henri Pieter Albert de Boom was born on 16 October 1914 in Pretoria. He completed his schooling at the Oosteindschool in 1931 and qualified as veterinarian from the Onderstepoort faculty in 1936. The rest of his career ...

J.W. Groenewald was Professor of Animal Nutrition in the 1950's. He authored a book "Animal Nutrition" which was used by veterinary students and others.

Dr. P.J. du Toit succeeded Sir Arnold Theiler as director of the OVI in 1927, a post he held until 1948. His main area of expertise was protozoology. He had also become Professor of Tropical Diseases at the Veterinary ...

Prof. Henning worked at the OVI and was also Professor of Veterinary Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Pretoria. In 1938 he was awarded the DVSc degree by the University of South Africa for his thesis "The ...

Dr. Duncan Hutcheon, MRCVS, qualified at the Royal Veterinary College (Royal Dick) in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1869. He came to the Cape Colony in 1880 to join the Colonial Service. An exceptional veterinarian in all respects ...

Prof. R.K. Reinecke was head of the Section of Helmintology at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute. He was a well known helminthologist.

Sir John M'Fadyean was principal of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and a microbiologist in London. Arnold Theiler collaborated with him.