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25 Interview with Professor Linda Richter, 9 September 2021.
26 L. M. Richter, Birth to Thirty (Reach Publishers, Wandsbeck, for DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in
Human Development, University of the Witwatersrand, 2022), p. 34.
27 Email to author from Dr Judith Katzenellenbogen, 6 August 2020.
28 MRC, Strongroom A119, boxfile ‘President’s Private Correspondence’: O. W. Prozesky to J. Sidibe-
Pimpie, WHO, 9 December 1998.
29 M. Hoffman, D. Yach, J. Katzenellenbogen, W. Pick and J. M. L. Klopper, ‘Mamre Community Health
Project: Rationale and Methods’, South African Medical Journal, 74 (1 October 1988), p. 323.
30 The Star, 29 March 1990, p. 8. The project still continues today as the ‘Birth to 30’ study. The MRC was
its chief funder until 2007; thereafter, this financial support diminished. In 2011 it resumed in indirect
form via the award of MRC research unit status to the study’s new home, the Development Pathways to
Health Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand, and via grants to individual scientists there
and elsewhere.
31 MRC Archives, MRC Board meeting, 31 October 1991, Attachment: D. Yach, ‘Community Health Research
Group of the MRC: Review of the First Eighteen Months, April 1990 – October 1991’, p. 2.
32 Email to author from Dr D. Yach, 16 August 2020.
33 MRC, AR 1993, p. 96.
34 MRC Archives, MRC Board meeting, 31 October 1991, Attachment: D. Yach, ‘Community Health Research
Group of the MRC: Review of the First Eighteen Months, April 1990 – October 1991’, p. 7.
35 Email to author from Dr Judith Katzenellenbogen, 6 August 2020.
36 Professor M. Zwarenstein cited in MRC, ‘SAMRC@50’, p. 121.
37 Interview with Emeritus Professor W. Pick, 25 August 2020.
38 Professor M. Susser cited in D. Yach and G. Martin (eds.), Building a Healthy Nation through Research:
Review of MRC’s Essential Health Research Group; Proceedings of Seminar/Review, June 1993 (MRC,
1993), p. 158.
39 D. Yach, ‘Economic Aspects of Smoking in South Africa’, South African Medical Journal, 62 (31 July
1982), pp. 167–70. As a result of this refusal to allow him to indicate his link with the MRC, in the article
Yach gave his home address as his base. He thought that the MRC’s refusal arose from its reluctance to be
seen to criticize a major player in the tobacco industry and supporter of the Government, Anton Rupert
(email to the author from Dr D. Yach, 16 August 2020).
40 ‘Smoking and Health in South Africa: The Need for Action’ (CERSA Technical Report, no. 1, April
1988), Preface..
41 Die Burger, 18 February 1992, p. 3.
42 Cited in M. Malan and R. Leaver, ‘Political Change in South Africa’, New Tobacco Control and Public
Health Policies (2011), p. 130.
43 Sunday Times, 22 September 1985, p. 12.
44 MRC, AR 1989, p. 17.
45 AIDS Bulletin, 1, 1 (August 1992), p. 3.
46 MRC, AR 1993, p. 64.
47 D. Yach et al., A National Survey of Health Status, Health Services, Research, and Training in South Africa
(MRC for Kaiser Family Foundation, Parow, 1991), p. 5.7.
48 MRC, AR 1989, p. 19.
49 P. Selby cited in MRC, ‘SAMRC@50’, p. 139.
50 Interview with Professor Alan Aderem, 3 February 2022.
51 Interview with Dr David Harrison, 3 September 2020.
52 Cited in Yach and Martin, Building a Healthy Nation, p. 83.
53 D. Yach and S. M. Tollman, ‘Public Health Initiatives in South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s: Lessons for
a Post-apartheid Era’, American Journal of Public Health, 83, 7 (July 1993), p. 1048.

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