Cape Town: Minister of Home Affairs, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma will today, Wednesday, 4 November 2009, at 18h30 deliver a keynote address during the official opening of Dr Raymond Hoffenberg Conference Room at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.
Dr Raymond Hoffenberg was a political activist who was slapped with a banning order by the apartheid government in the sixties. He was a well known medical practitioner who had participated in the preparations for the first heart transplant conducted by Dr Chris Barnard in the sixties, an endocrinologist and medical scientist.
Dr Hoffenberg was honoured by former President Thabo Mbeki with The Order of the Baobab (Silver) for "his excellent contribution to the advancement of medicine and opposing apartheid policies."
Media is invited.
For more information contact:
Ronnie Mamoepa
Cell: 082 990 4853
Issued by: Department of Home Affairs
4 November 2009
