by Kegorapetse | Jul 31, 2018 | SMU Media, statements
Media Alert
31 July 2018
For Immediate Release
Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) will host Prof Bongani Mayosi’s Memorial Service
Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) will host the Memorial Service of the late Prof Bongani Mayosi. The members of the media are hereby informed about the memorial service of the late Prof Bongani Mayosi. The late Prof Mayosi was the dean of the faculty of health sciences, University of Cape Town (UCT), a world-renowned researcher and a scholar. Prof Mayosi collaborated with SMU on various medical research projects. Further to that, he supported the University with training of subspecialist at Groote Schuur hospital. The memorial service will be held on Thursday 2 August 2018, at the Sports Complex, SMU, Ga-Rankuwa, and Pretoria at 15h00.
The provisional programme of the memorial service is as follows:
- Opening and Welcome: Prof Chris de Beer, SMU Vice-Chancellor
- Purpose of the day: MEC Dr Gwen Ramokgopa/Deputy Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla
Speakers:
- Prof Pindile Mntla, SMU
- Prof Green Thompson, University of the Witwatersrand
- Prof Mofolo/Baloyi, University of the Free State (UOFS)
- Prof Mokgokong / Prof Rantloane, University of Pretoria (UP)
- Prof Mike Sathekge, President, College of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA)
- Prof Velaphi, Medical Research Council (MRC)
- Dr Kgosi Letlape, Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA)
- Friends/Colleagues/Students: Dr Martin Mpe, Dr Zweli Mkhize
- Student, SMU SRC President
- Eulogy, Prof Luvhengo, University of the Witwatersrand
- Vote of thanks, Dr Pooe
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by Kegorapetse | Jul 23, 2018 | SMU Media, statements
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SMU becoming the Nelson Mandela Legacy
Nelson Mandela, the founding father of the democratic South Africa, would have turned 100 years old, on Wednesday 2018, had he been alive, today. To celebrate his centenary, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, a non-governmental organisation dedicated to preserve his legacy, issued a clarion call to all humanity to embrace the virtues of becoming Mandela’s legacy.
The SMU Community, as always, is rising to the challenge to become the legacy of Nelson Mandela. The community identified two poor family members of the Ga-Rankuwa community to benefit from the 67 minutes community service that they will be rendering.
The beneficiaries are the old pensioners who live alone and their houses need refurbishment to make them habitable and their yards would do well with cleaning as they have overgrown with grass and weeds.
Working in groups, the volunteers, who are students and staff will use the 20 litre paint and brushes that have been donated, to paint the one room which needs painting. They will also bring their own spades and other gardening implements to clean the yard. The cleaning department has donated refuse bags to carry the refuse, trucks will carry the refuse to dumping site. The food donations will also be handed to the needy families. The other work group will remain on the campus of SMU to clean up the campus.
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by Kegorapetse | Jul 11, 2018 | SMU Media, statements
Media Invite
For Immediate Release
10 July 2018
Friendship concert featuring – SMU, Austrian, USA, St Albans Boys Choir and SA Chorale
Members of the media, the communities of SMU and that of Ga-Rankuwa are hereby invited to the friendship concert which will be held Wednesday 11 July 2018, in the Community Hall in Zone 1, Ga-Rankuwa, from 17h00. The SMU Choir, along with international choirs from Austria and the USA, as well as St Albans Boys Choir and SA Chorale will take part in the friendship concert. Entrance is free.
The concert seeks to enable the SMU Choir and international choirs to perform for the Ga-Rankuwa community and to give them a foretaste of the songs that will be sung at the World Choir Games (WCG) which are underway, at the Time Square Arena, in Menlyn Main. The concert is meant to be an opportunity for the choirs to get to know one another. This will also go a long way to open doors to all manner of possibilities such as future cooperation, exchange programmes visits etc.
The SMU Choir will be performing as follows:
| Date |
Venue |
Time |
Cost |
| Thursday 12 July 2018 |
SMU Sport Centre |
09h00 |
Free |
| Friday 13 July 2018 |
The Desmond Abernethy Hall, Pretoria Boys High, 251 Roper Street, Brooklyn, Pretoria |
11h30 |
R200, category 06 and SMU Choir performs as #4 |
| Saturday 14 July 2018 |
Sun Time Square Arena, Menlyn Main, 201 Aramist Street, Waterglen |
09h30 |
Awards Ceremony, for 11-11(categories O/C 1,6,810,12,23,26) |
Tickets for the WCG, which are being held at the main event, Menlyn Main, Time Square cost R200 and are available online on this website: https://wcg.nutickets.co.za/2018SA
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by Kegorapetse | Jul 4, 2018 | SMU Media
The City of Tshwane Municipality (CTM) will be playing host to 300 choirs from Africa and the rest of the world. The World Choirs Games (WCG) are the choir version of the world cup. The CTM is the proud host of the first WCG to be held in Africa. The games will be held at the various venues in Tshwane. They begin on 4 to 14 July 2018. The Sun Arena Time Square, in Menlyn main, will be the main venue. The other venues are the Opera State Theatre, University of Pretoria, Z K Matthews Great Hall, UNISA, Pretoria Boys High and University of Pretoria (UP) St Albans Cathedral, serving as parallel venues for different competition categories.
WCG seek to bring people of the world together through the medium of music to forge friendships among participating national choirs. CTM, has invited the SMU Choir to play a leading role in the promotional drive of the WCG and also to compete in the competition categories. This is based not only on the confidence that the CTM has in the choir as the defending champions of Tshwane Choral Music Competition (TCMC). But also because the choir won TCMC in 2017 and successfully underwent a rigorous screening audition, which was conducted by WCG adjudicators.
SMU has been participating in the WCG Roadshows across the length and breadth of Tshwane. On Tuesday 3 July 2018, the SMU Choir, in SMU branded track suits, performed their trade mark song “Koloi ya tsamaya” at the Tshwane House, to a thunderous reception from staff of CTM and members of the Tshwane community attending the event. A flash mob advert was recorded which featured prominently on social media of SMU and CTM.
On Wednesday 4 July 2018, the choir will become the face of the country by welcoming, through the power of song and music, the international choirs arriving at OR Tambo International Airport. The choirs will be participating in the WCG.
On Sunday, 9 July 2018, the choir will be singing at the prestigious Mayoral Gala Dinner, at Sun Times Square Arena, Menlyn Main, holding the flag of SMU high, indeed.
On 11 July 2018 at 17h00, SMU and its choir will host a mini friendship concert at the Sports Centre. Two international choirs will participate in this mini friendship concert. The details of this mini concert will announced as soon as possible.
For more details about the WCG, please visit the https://www.interkultur.com/events/world-choir-games/tshwane-2018/
To purchase tickets, please click on: www.nutickets.co.za/
by Kegorapetse | Jul 2, 2018 | SMU Media
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is championing a campaign to inspire the population to embrace an active lifestyle, by walking, running or playing recreational sports to improve their health status. As more people heed the message and begin to take to all manner of exercises, the ever present possibility of sports injuries, resulting from lack of knowledge about proper exercise techniques to prevent injuries, come into sharp focus.
Sports Injury Rehabilitation Unit (SIRU)
Having sustained injuries, in the process, where do the active people go for therapy and for advice on the proper exercise techniques to prevent injuries? “Given the heavy patient load that hospitals have to deal with, patients often end up receiving treatment for pain and restoration of mobility. Our newly established Sport Injury Rehabilitation Unit (SIRU) works differently, as our approach to injuries is holistic and comprehensive, bringing on board allied disciplines such as human nutrition and orthopaedics. The SIRU prides itself for upholding the virtues of multi-disciplinary work and aim to, in the future, work with disciplines such as Human Nutrition and Orthopaedics, on board” said Mr Muhammad Dawood, the sports physio therapist, in charge.
Dawood added that the comprehensive management of injuries not only heals the aches that the patients suffer from, but it also offers biomechanical analysis. Based on the outcome of the analysis, the physios then design an exercise programme the patient must adhere to, in order to prevent the recurrence of such injuries, in future as well as optimize performance.
Operating during week days, from 08h00 to 17h00, SIRU has treated over 75 patients. Patients pay R100 and students R50 for which they receive attention from senior physiotherapy students, supervised by their lecturer, who acquire clinical exposure to a very wide spectrum of sports injuries the patients bring to the centre.
In less than three months in operation, the SIRU is making inroads among the SMU on campus community, the majority of whom are under 35. It is touching the lives of many outside the premises of the SMU, from all over Tshwane – recreational runners, soccer players and fitness enthusiasts from different parts of Tshwane, who got to know about it through word of mouth referral.
They present with a profile of injuries including; injuries resulting from poor training practices, traumatic injuries, overuse injuries and injured ligaments. It also prides itself for embracing evidence based treatment which is informed by research generated in the interaction with the critical mass of patients who have utilised its services. The SIRU will, in the future be producing high quality sport physiotherapy and rehabilitation research.
