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Veterinary History (History Society of the South African Veterinary Association): Recent submissions
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(2023-09)Sieg, as known by all his friends and colleagues, was born on 28 February 1950 in Lichtenburg. He obtained his BVSc at Onderstepoort in 1973 and also a BVSC (Hons) in Veterinary Public Health from UP in 1992. major achievement ...
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(2023-07-01)Jakobus Johannes (Japie) Jackson was born on 20 August 1931 on the farm Riverton in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He completed the first-year examinations in November 1949 and he qualified for BVSc in the middle of ...
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(2023-09)Brian Baker was born on 11 November 1936 in Johannesburg. Brian and Janet Baker moved to ‘Summerveld’ in Natal in about 1965, where in addition to farming and his racing practice, he became increasingly involved in all ...
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(2023-08)Malie was born on 27 February 1933 in Potchefstroom, the granddaughter of the German missionary, Daniel Heese. At the end of 1954, Malie qualifies as a veterinarian and received the coveted Theiler medal for the best student ...
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(Article originally published in VetNews / VetNuus, August 2023, the monthly magazine of the South African Veterinary Association, 2023-08)Stan (Edgar Stanley Miller) was born in Windhoek on 8 June 1945. He graduated BVSc at Onderstepoort in 1970 and later BVSc (Hons) in 1981. He was a lecturer in Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the UP Faculty of ...
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(2023-05)David Mendel Burstein was born on 6 February 1943 in Johannesburg. He attended Houghton Primary School and King Edward (K.E.S) High School for Boys in Johannesburg. Initially, Dave began studying for a degree in Chemical ...
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(2023-04)Curriculum vitae of the veterinarian , Ian Vivian Schlesinger. The curriculum vitae includes information about his education and career, activities and interests
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(2023-04)Robert C. Clark was born in Johannesburg on 07/02/1944. He qualified as veterinarian in 1967 and worked for the Johannesburg City Council for two years as relief veterinarian. He worked in the United States of America and ...
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(2023-03)For the first time since the World Veterinary Association Congress was held in Cape Town in 2011, the Veterinary History Society (previously a SAVA Committee) arranged a whole-day session on Veterinary History at the ...
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(2023-03)Peter Henry Bunton was born on 2 March 1922, possibly in Port Elizabeth, where his parents Henry Arthur Bunton and his mother, Grace Isabel Gilfillan were living at that time and managing the family's Bunton's Grand Hotel. ...
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(2023-02)One of the most beloved veterinarians in Hermanus, Dr Sandy Waddingham died on 16 December 2023 after a long and brave battle with cancer. Sandy was born in 1958, the youngest of 5 children. After qualifying as veterinarian ...
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(2023-03)This is a tribute to the late Dr Alan Fair, who sadly passed away on 26 February 2022 at the young age (as he liked to say) of 87. Alan started out as a State Vet in Rustenburg, then spent a brief time in Pietermaritzburg, ...
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(2023-02)Maurice Azzie was born in East London, South Africa, on the 29th of October 1935, the son of Tim and Mary Azzie. Having completed two years of a Bachelor of Science (in Biology) at the University of Witwatersrand in ...
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(2023)Historical summary of Dr Jotello Festiri Soga's career from 22 April 1886 when he registered as veterinary surgeon in Tutuka, Cape Colony to 1902 when he was employed by Carl H. Malcomess to supervise his cattle on the ...
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(2023-01)Obituary of Dr Ramoni Joubert (24/02/1994 - 7/12/2022) who was an incredibly driven and diverse woman. One minute she would be walking the runways in New York. The next, she’d be riding a horse across the Okavango Delta.
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(2023-01)Mr David Swanepoel served as librarian of the Onderstepoort Veterinary Research (OVR) Institute from his appointment in 1985 until retiring in 2020 but passed away shortly afterwards. David was a co-opted founder member ...
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(1989)In a fit to transform ideas into images or images into words or stories, Leonie Pullinger have often referred to the New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology in which there are accounts of all kinds of animals, ordinary and ...
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(1989)News article about a new, slowly progressive neurological disorder of adult cattle that has been recognised in the UK. It was first diagnosed in November 1986. the condition was called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
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(1989)News article about the 6th Faculty Day held at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria on the 27th September 1989 in the Arnold Theiler Building at the Onderstepoort Campus.
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(1978)On the 11th November 1978, a significant event in veterinary history took place with the inauguration of the Veterinary Nurses Association of South Africa
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