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30 Interview with Emeritus Professor Barry Schoub, 10 September 2020.
31 Interview with Professor Glenda Gray, 5 March 2022.
32 MRC Board Minutes, Minutes of Meeting, 20 November 2014, p. 6.
33 The three values were Gray’s own brainchild which, she admitted, she had ‘sucked … out of my thumb,
but they kind of pretty much worked for the MRC’ and so have remained till this day (Interview with
Professor Glenda Gray, 5 March 2022).
34 MRC digital booklet, ‘SAMRC @50’, p. 54.
35 MRC, ‘SAMRC @50’, p. 55.
36 Business Day, 31 July 2014, p. 2.
37 MRC, AR 2017–2018, p. 13.
38 In 2019 this programme was renamed the Bongani Mayosi National Health Scholars Programme in
honour of one of its most ardent founders, whose dictum had been ‘health over wealth’.
39 MRC Board Minutes, Minutes of Meeting, 29 February 2016, #8.11.
40 MRC Board Minutes, Minutes of Meeting, 25 November 2020, p. 13.
41 MRC, ‘Perception Survey Analysis’ (2015), p. 18.
42 MRC, ‘Perception Survey Analysis’ (2015), p. 17.
43 MRC, ‘Perception Survey Analysis’ (2015), p. 5.
44 MRC, ‘SAMRC@50’, p. 56.
45 This is made clear in the formal evaluation criteria adopted then: ‘The primary consideration in
determining the success of a funding application is the quality of the research proposal. However, equally
important to the SAMRC is transformation and building the capacity of, particularly, early-career, black
and women scientists as well as resource-limited institutions’ (https://www.samrc.ac.za/funding/self-
initiated-research).
46 MRC, AR 2016–2017, p. 8.
47 MRC, ‘Summary Report for Employment Survey’, 15 February 2016, #2.3.1.
48 MRC, ‘Perception Survey Analysis’ (2015), pp. 7–8.
49 MRC, ‘Perception Survey Analysis’ (2015), p. 2.
50 MRC, ‘Perception Survey Analysis’ (2015), p. 5.
51 MRC Board Minutes, Minutes of Meeting, 25 November 2015, p. 18.
52 Interview with Professor Glenda Gray, 5 March 2022.
53 MRC, Revitalising the MRC: The Way Forward; Intramural Directors’ Strategic Planning Meeting, 27–29
May 2013 (MRC, 2013), p. 11.
54 MRC, Revitalising the MRC.
55 MRC,’ SAMRC@50’, p. 142.
56 Five were located at UCT, three each at Witwatersrand and Pretoria universities, and one each at
Potchefstroom, Stellenbosch, UNISA and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.
57 One each at UWC, Fort Hare and the Tshwane University of Technology.
58 MRC, President’s Report, October 2018, ‘Funding Transformation and Research Capacity’, p. 5.
59 MRC, AR 2019–2020, p. 124.
60 R. Hellman and K. Ratele, ‘Month of Love is Becoming One That is Steeped in Violence’, The Star, 25
February 2016, p. 34.
61 MRC, AR 2019–2020, p. 151.
62 https://www.samrc.ac.za/extramural-research-units/wound-and-keloid-scarring-translational.
63 See pp. 47 and 108.
64 Sunday Times, 20 February 2005, p. 11.
65 Business Day, 28 November 2013, p. 5.
66 MRC, AR 2019–2020, p. 101.
67 See p. 76

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