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Preface
1 A. J. Brink (ed.), South African Medical Research: Twenty Years of Growth (Owen Burgess Publishers,
Pinetown, 1988); B. J. Barker, ‘A Short General History of the SAMRC’, in Thirty Years of the MRC:
In Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the MRC, and the Presentation of MRC Gold Medals for
Meritorious Contributions, and the MRC Silver Medals for Excellence, 11 November 1999 (MRC, 1999); A.
Mbewu and D. Yach, South African Medical Research Council at 40 Years (MRC, 2009); ‘SAMRC@50’
(unpublished digital MS, 2019); ‘South African Medical Research Council: 50 Years of Ground Breaking
Health Research and Innovation’, South African Medical Journal, 109, 11b (November 2019), pp. 2–90.
2 M. Makgoba, ‘Africa’s Health Challenges and Opportunities in the New Millennium’ (unpublished
lecture, Canada, 2000).
Chapter 1 – From Genesis to Exodus: The Founding of the MRC, 1969–1970
1 Cited in J. F. Murray, ‘History of the South African Institute for Medical Research’, South African Medical
Journal, 20 April 1963, p. 389.
2 Cited in W. Beinart and S. Dubow, The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present
(Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021), p. 254.
3 H. Gluckman, Abiding Values: Speeches and Addresses (Caxton, Johannesburg, 1970), pp. 414, 475.
4 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1072248/life-expectancy-south-africa-historical/.
5 MRC Office, Parow, Strongroom H111: File M 6/1/1, vol. VII (i): Memorandum by Dr W. H. Craib, A
Personal Report to Dr S. M. Naudé, 10 February 1967.
6 The one dissentient was Professor A. J. Brink, the first president of the MRC four years later: A. J. Brink,
Brood op mediese waters: Mosaïek uit die professionale lewe van Andries Brink (Clinics-Cardive Publishing,
2003), p. 144.
7 South Africa, Debates of the House of Assembly, 13 February 1969, col. 691.
8 CSIR, Annual Report, 1965, p. 1.
9 South Africa, Senate Debates, 27 February 1969, cols. 110, 113.
10 Other scientific research councils established as part of this policy at this time include the National
Institute for Rocket and Research and Development (1963), the National Institute for Defence Research
(1965), the National Institute of Metallurgy (1966), the Human Sciences Research Council (1969) and the
South African Astronomical Observatory (1972).
11 http://stellenboschwriters.com/brinka.html.

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