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16 A particularly egregious example of this jargon is to be found in the ‘Synopsis of the Planning Workshop
for the Implementation of the MRC’s Corporate Plan’, 19 May 1995. Item 4 on page 3 reads: ‘Portrayed as
a matrix organisational model some activities should be viewed as constraints linked to generic managerial
and organisational issues (vertically oriented), while others would be of a need-driven variable nature –
linked to specific health problems (horizontally oriented).’ (MRC Archives, Minutes of meeting of MRC
Board, 3 August 1995, attachment: Minutes of meeting of chairperson’s committee, 3 May 1995).
17 J. A. Kastor, The National Institutes of Health, 1991–2008 (OUP, Oxford, 2010), p. xli.
18 Salute: MRC Staff Newsletter, February 1994, p. 1.
19 MRC, Strongroom A119, boxfile ‘ENHR’: ‘SA ENHR Site Visit: Summary Report, 11–16, 22–23
September 1996’, p. 4.
20 MRC News, 31, 6 (December 2000), p. 15.
21 MRC, AR 1999–2000, p. 11.
22 ‘SAMRC@50’, p. 45.
23 MRC, ‘Perception Survey Analysis’ (2015), pp. 26–7.
24 MRC, ‘Perception Survey Analysis’ (2015), p. 32.
25 MRC, Strongroom A119, boxfile ‘Staff Matters’, subfile ‘Scientists’: ‘Pretoria MRC Science Community:
Questions and Concerns; The Philosophy of the MRC’, 5 November 2002.
26 This was particularly so at the level of management where the percentage of blacks among the senior
managers at the MRC rose from 13 per cent in 1997 to 45 per cent in 2007 (MRC, AR 2005–2006, p. 61;
MRC, AR 2006–2007, p. 71).
27 MRC, AR 2011–2012, p. 101.
28 MRC Board Minutes, 12 June 2009, p. 10.
29 MRC, AR 2003–2004, p. 1.
30 ‘Dr Makgoba’ in MRC News, 33, 4 (August 2002), p. 4.
31 MRC, Strongroom A119, boxfile ‘President’s Private Correspondence’: M. W. Makgoba, ‘Transforming
Decision-Making at the MRC’, 28 October 1998.
32 MRC News, 33, 4 (August 2002), p. 11.
33 MRC News, 33, 4 (August 2002), p. 10.
34 MRC, AR 2000–2001, p. 18.
35 MRC, Strongroom A119, boxfile ‘DoH’: M. W. Makgoba to Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, 23 April
1999.
36 The MRC had acquired this unique, 16-hectare, multi-species centre from the Cape Provincial
Administration for a nominal fee in 1991.
37 Cited in ‘SAMRC @50’, p. 86.
38 MRC News, 33, 4 (August 2002), p. 4.
39 Die Burger, 22 September 1999, p. 11.
40 M. W. Makgoba, Mokoko: The Makgoba Affair; A Reflection on Transformation (Vivlia, Florida Hills,
1997); M. W. Makgoba (ed.), The African Renaissance: The New Struggle (Mafube, Johannesburg; and
Tafelberg, Cape Town, 1999).
41 Cited in J. Cohen, ‘AIDS Researchers Decry Mbeki’s Views on HIV’, Science, 288, 5466 (28 April 2000),
p. 590.
42 M. W. Makgoba, ‘HIV/AIDS: The Perils of Pseudoscience’, Science, 288, 5469 (19 May 2000), p. 1171.
43 Cited in Die Burger, 23 August 2001, p. 12.
44 Makgoba, ‘HIV/AIDS: The Perils of Pseudoscience’, p. 1171.
45 ‘Dr Makgoba’ in MRC News, 33, 4 (August 2002), p. 5.
46 ‘ANC Today’ cited in The Star, 8 April 2002, p. 2.
47 Sunday Independent, 24 March 2002, p. 1.
48 Business Day, 25 March 2002, p. 1.

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