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  December 2011:  Germiston’s own Rapunzel, Monique Brummelkamp (11) has cut off her long locks. The young girl, recently decided that the time had come to cut her hair.  Her hair became very heavy and she started getting headaches. “Needless to say it broke our hearts, but it was her decision and we respected that, […]

For almost nine months, Millicent Mulelu, a Sales Manager in Shell Aviation, had been in and out of hospital with constant abdominal pains accompanied by chronic diarrhoea. Doctors were baffled by the cause of her illness. Photo right: Millicent signs the World Cancer Declaration. Out of desperation she went for a second opinion in September […]

Last year I shaved my hair off at the Shavathon held in Pavillion Shopping Centre, Durban. See my photo’s from before, during and after. It is one of my proudest moments and it is truly a liberating and personally explorative experience, as well as a rewarding and life-affirming action.              […]

My husband passed away on the 29th December 2010 with testicular cancer. I have cut my ponytail and donated it to CANSA. This is in memory of my 32 year old husband and every time my hair is in a ponytail long enough to donate, I will be donating my hair to CANSA. My husband, […]

My name is Wynand van der Westhuizen. I was diagnosed with T-cell Lymphoma at the age of 9 on New Year’s Eve, 2000. The cancer had spread throughout my body and bone marrow and I had to receive very intensive chemotherapy. I had a few courses that made me lose my hair three times. My […]

The 53cm plait that Tania cut for CANSA on 30 December 2008. I Tania Dryden would like to donate my hair (plait) to CANSA. I had my hair cut on 30 December 2008 for the first time in 32 years. My last short hair cut was when I was six years old and thereafter I […]

Mark Pilgrim, radio DJ | TV presenter | MC | voice artist and cancer survivor, has long been a champion of CANSA’s Shavathon and has actively worked to spread a message of early detection and prevention of cancer to all South Africans in partnership with CANSA. Poster right: Mark in the red T-shirt at the […]

Amanda Power 11:39 AM Feb 13, ’10 I feel both humbled and encouraged having been asked to write this piece, a story of my life so far. Humbled as I don’t know if I am worthy of this great honour and encouraged, by businesses and people who are enabling me to speak out and tell […]

At the beginning of 2008, the financial community  was not renowned for its optimistic outlook as most of them were concerned about the sustainability of the financial industry. Fortunately their fears did not come to fruition and they quickly went back to their merry old ways.  Sadly the reality for many others was not the […]