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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>From:</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'> Susan Veldsman <br><b>Sent:</b> 28 October 2016 15:45<br><b>To:</b> Nsef<br><b>Subject:</b> ASSAf Elects New President<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Dear ASSAf Stakeholders<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>The Academy of Science of SA (ASSAf) has elected Prof Jonathan Jansen as its new President for the next four years. He succeeds Prof Daya Reddy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>New Office-bearers for the 2016-2020 have also been elected - they are Professors Brenda Wingfield and Barney Pityana who were elected Vice-Presidents, Prof Himla Soodyall as General Secretary and Prof Eugene Cloete who was elected Treasurer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Prof Jonathan Jansen</span></b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'> is the immediate past Vice-Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Free State (UFS) and is currently a Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and also President of the South African Institute of Race Relations. His book, <i>Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past</i> (Stanford, 2009) won the Nayef Al Rodhan Prize, the largest award from the British Academy for the social science and humanities, for its contribution to scholarly excellence and transcultural understanding. In 2013, he was awarded the Education Africa Lifetime Achiever Award in New York and the Spendlove Award from the University of California for his contributions to tolerance, democracy and human rights. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Vermont and Cleveland State University. His recent books include <i>Leading for Change</i> (Routledge, 2016) and he is completing a new book explaining the current crisis in, and future prospects of, the South African university due for release in mid-2017 (NB Publishers).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Prof Brenda Wingfield</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> </span><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>holds the </span><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>DST-NRF SARChI Research Chair in Fungal Genomics </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>and is Professor of Genetics at the University of Pretoria (UP). She also served as the Chair of the National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) until recently and is the recipient of the prestigious Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship for her outstanding research.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Prof Nyameko Barney Pityana</span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#8D5A00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> </span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>was the Rector of the College of the Transfiguration, Grahamstown. He is the former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Africa (Unisa). He was Chairperson of Higher Education South Africa and Chairman of the African Council for Distance Education.</span><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Prof Himla Soodyall</span></b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'> is </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>a Principal Medical Scientist at the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) and Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). She is a recipient of the National Order of Mapungubwe (Bronze).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Prof Thomas Eugene Cloete </span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>is Vice-Rector, Research and Innovation at Stellenbosch University (SU). He is s former recipient of the ASSAf Science-for-Society Gold Medal award. He is the Founding Director of the SU Water Institute. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>ASSAf Council members for the 2016-2020 cycle are:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Prof Stephanie Burton </span><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>is Vice-Principal: Research and Postgraduate Education at UP.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Prof Norman Duncan </span><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#00000A;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>is Professor in Psychology and the Dean of Humanities Vice-Principal: Academic at UP. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#00000A;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Prof Sabiha Essack is the South African Research Chair in Antibiotic Resistance and One Health and Professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences at UKZN.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Prof Shireen Hassim is Professor of Politics at Wits. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Dr Shadrack Moephuli is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Agricultural Research Council. Appointed by the DST Minister as a NACI representative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Prof Johann Mouton is<b> </b>Professor in, and Director of the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology and the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Scientometrics and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>Prof Refilwe Phaswana-Mafuya i</span><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>s the Director of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance of the HSRC and Honorary Professor at NMMU.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Prof Zeblon Vilakazi is Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Postgraduate Affairs at Wits.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Dr Siyavuya Bulani<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Senior Liaison Officer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA 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