Ashraf Abdelaziz|Published
ON 10 March, United States Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III stood before South African business executives at the BizNews Conference in Hermanus and told them, plainly, that America was running out of patience with their government.
He urged those executives to speak out against Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE). Within two days, the South African government had issued a formal diplomatic protest.
Within three days of that protest, Gayton McKenzie, a sitting Cabinet minister and leader of the Patriotic Alliance, was at the ambassador’s official residence in Pretoria for a private meeting. His party released a statement…
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holds significant reserves, although production has declined in recent years.
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Fun South African Fact: South African Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first heart transplant on 3 December 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. The groundbreaking surgery was carried out on Louis Washkansky and Dr. Barnard was assisted by a large and exceptional team of surgeons, nurses and technicians. One of Dr. Barnard’s assistants was Hamilton Naki, a black laboratory assistant who had worked previously as a gardener and went on to work in the animal laboratory at the University of Cape Town. He had assisted Dr Barnard with research leading to the transplant. In the apartheid days, Naki had no access to higher education due to his race. Despite being unable to access formal training, he learned from and assisted university researchers and went on to do improbable work.
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