Recent News

CANSA is deeply saddened by the loss of a long-time friend, and supporter, Mark Pilgrim.

One of South Africa’s most treasured radio personalities, Mark was also a beloved CANSA Ambassador supporting CANSA Shavathon as well as being a Daredevil champion and numerous fundraising events in the capacity of MC for many years. He was also an avid activist for raising awareness around cancers affecting men, especially testicular cancer and promoting men’s health awareness.

It took quite a bit of hustling, negotiating and hard work to get the first Shavathon off the ground. Fortunately for CANSA, Simon Clark persevered and in 2003 events were held at 50 venues in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth). Thank you Simon for the initiative you took – Shavathon is now a firm favourite on the South African calendar and well loved by all affected through cancer. Simon’s message to everyone: “If you are thinking about it, just do it – stop talking, get out there and do it, that’s when great things happen!”

Watch a video about the work CANSA does with regards to research, advocacy and education aimed at lowering cancer risk and raising awareness of cancer, cancer screening to promote early detection and care and support services for cancer patients, caregivers and loved ones… #ShaveSA

Thank you to our awesome Online Fundraising Champions for 2020 who raised over R130 000 through their online fundraising pages…

The CANSA Shavathon 2020 launch was on Expresso TV with Globeflight, our official Shavathon couriers…

Join us at Shavathon – we hope to see you there!

Here are our radio and TV ads – will you join us at Shavathon on the 29th February – we hope to see you there!

We thank our ALL Shavathon Online Fundraising Champions, who raised funds through their fundraising pages.

This web page contains some of the best pics of Shavathon 2019. View the full gallery on our national Facebook page. Please note that each CANSA Care Centre has its on Facebook Page where local pics of Shavathon events were posted.

Vershano is very sickly and spends most of his time in hospital, but he wanted to give back to those who were fighting cancer, so he donated his hair to CANSA to be used to make a wig for those in need.