Thabo makgoba biography of william

  • He turned 95 years old yesterday and I was able to join his family and staff in hospital for Communion and sing birthday wishes.
  • I am delighted to introduce Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, a foremost theologian and eminent leader of the global Anglican communion as the guest lecturer.
  • We three archbishops agreed to collaborate with UNAIDS, particularly around the forthcoming 16 days of activism to end gender-based violence and on AIDS Day.

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    Malegapuru Makgoba

    South African immunologist, physician, public health advocate and academic

    Malegapuru William Makgoba (born in Sekhukhune, South Africa) is a leading South Africanimmunologist, physician, public health advocate, academic and former vice-chancellor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In he was recognised as "a pioneer in higher education transformation",[1] by being awarded the Order of Mapungubwe in Silver.

    Academic career

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    Makgoba received an MBChB degree from the University of Natal Medical School in with merit in medicine. In he was named the first black Nuffield Dominion Fellow to the University of Oxford,[2] where he completed his DPhil degree in human immunogenetics in under Professor Sir Andrew McMichael.[3] The title of his thesis was "Studies on the polymorphism of HLA class II antigens".

    He went on to become the first senior registrar to fellow expatriate South African and President of Royal College of Phys

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    The text of an address prepared for the 40th anniversary celebration of the founding of the United Democratic Front, held in Johannesburg:

    Programme Directors, Mr President, Friends, Colleagues, former comrades in the struggle, fellow South Africans, and all who hold the freedom of this country close to their hearts:

    Greetings to you from Cape Town. Apologies for not being with you in individ. It's of course a working day for me, and the factory in which we build hope is particularly busy on a Sunday -- today I was at the Tutu family's current parish, St Oswald's Church in Milnerton.

    Celebrations are about, or ought to be about, looking at where we come from, where we are today and what we want to become in the future. My input will attempt to follow that format, ending with seeking hope for the future.

    Until today 40 years ago, I was a relatively quiet, science student who enjoyed tennis and squash and fun at varsity. Then inom joined my fellow Wits students and came from Johan

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    Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, friends from the Western Cape inter religious group, dear people of this beautiful city, dear friends.

    It is a great joy to be with you as we celebrate what we have termed the Mayoral Service.

    Thank you, Mr. Dean and your staff for hosting this service and for the Western Cape Religious Leaders' Forum for coordinating this together with the city and the Cathedral: to everyone else who is here, who loves this city or who lives in the city or offers services to the city, feel welcomed.

    The ancient Greek notion of the city implied that the polis is about citizenship and the body of citizens. In short, how space and resources are organized in service to the people of the city and how the people in turn engage to shape their destiny collaboratively.

    So you, we all matter, for without you, we would not have the mayor to organize the affairs of this city, nor the mayor without the citizens.

    May I also, on behalf of the Dean and his staff welco
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