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Gavin Wright

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We had a very difficult pilot. I say difficult because there were certain individuals who were more interested in pressing their personal political agendas than seeing the pilot being successful. There was one man (Victor Makgwana) who had the vision for South Africa initially and was able to get some key people on board with him. One of those people was a wonderful man named Molefi Sefularo or Paul to his closest friends. Paul was the deputy health minister and was such a wonderful man that words fail to describe him well enough.

Dr Molefi Sefularo (Paul)

1957 - 2010

Dr Sefularo was a medical doctor who went into politics. Many who do so keep their personal surgeries and when they become well known, charge a fortune for their services to capitalise on their new found fame. Not so for Molefi.

He took a personal interest in the South African Moving & Handling Project and wished to see it succeed. He was very upset when others wanted to interefer with the process and arranged to come and see us to sort out the matter.

Unfortunately, just prior to seeing us after a return from  visiting Cuba, America and Britain, he was killed in a road traffic accident, just one day after the famous Terre’Blanche incident. Terre’Blanche was the leader of one of the opposition parties that wanted to see a return of apartheid. He was bludgeoned to death and came from not too far away from where Dr Sefularo hails. I don’t personally believe so, but some believe that the two incidents were connected.

The result as far as the SAMHP was concerned was that our key political ally was now out of the picture. On a personal note, Paul was a personal friend since schoolboy days with Victor and Dr. Martin Khunou (another key member of SAMHP). My thoughts go out to them. We were all together when they both received a call at the same time from different sources informing us of his death. The tears were real and the sadness extreme.

We are now re-grouping and considering our next push forward and will keep you informed of future developments. In the meantime, I am back in the UK and available for freelance moving and handling / CPR / Food Hygiene training work, website development or help with designing your own online training programmes.

The document entitled “A Case for Legislative Change in Safe Patient Handling in South Africa” has been submitted to the relevant authorities and can be downloaded by clicking the link below.

A Case for Legislative Change in Safe Patient Handling in South Africa