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2015: Thank you to Discovery’s Sandton, Centurion, KZN, Cape Town & PE branches who hosted Shavathon events during our Corporate Shavathon week and raised a whopping R101 553-10!

Bridget Ball, a 13 year old high school learner, donated 30 cm of her hair for the CANSA Shavathon campaign. She has been growing her hair since she was born, so that she could donate her hair to help those affected by cancer.

March 2015 – Presenter, Sam Mangesi, finds out more about what goes on at a CANSA Shavathon event. He chats to participants regarding their motivation for shaving, spraying or wrapping their hair and for volunteering.

Shavathon participant Ingrid, shares that her reason for shaving her head, is to honour her mom and mom-in-law who both died of cancer. Ingrid nursed both of them, took them to chemo and was their hospital buddy.

Thank you to our supporters at AfriSam, supporting CANSA and Shavathon since 2008! Staff from many AfriSam branches participated during Corporate Shavathon week: Head office, Roodepoort, Brakpan, Vanderbjilpark, Coedmore, Ladysmith, Verulam, Newcastle, Pietermaritzburg, Rheebok, North West and Northern Cape. R27 818-30 was raised and the funds were matched rand for rand through the Mbeu, Employee Involvement […]

Discovery AfriSam Red Panda Software Sanlam Head Office – view Video… Capital Outsourcing Group Lime Light SA – view Shavathon Fierce Hair Video… Pick n Pay Head Office Laerskool Phalaborwa host ‘Cut and Donate’ Day – collecting 85 ponytails… 2015 Public Shavathons Gallery: View some of the action at shopping centre Shavathons…

In showing your support to those affected by cancer, you offer a glimmer of hope, an ounce of empathy and the simple recognition we’re “all in” the fight together. This is why I’ve chosen to support the CANSA Shavathon…

Among our fantastic online fundraisers for Shavathon 2015 are The Hair’s Angels for CANSA, who are a team of 14 women who have shaved their heads bald in support of cancer Survivors and the CANSA Shavathon. They have raised a total of R65 860 * (R52 760 from 16 online donations & a further R2000 donation off-line, as well as a donation of R11 100 off-line from Nedbank)

Not everyone is keen to shave their head and that is absolutely fine! You can still participate… Show solidarity with a cancer Survivor by getting your head sprayed in rainbow colours: red, pink, purple, blue, green, silver, yellow, orange, black and white to add some flair to your hair.   To add to the excitement of […]

Watch this video where friends demonstrate their devotion to their girlfriend, Gerdi McKenna, by shaving their heads…