SAVF News

Bursary

Vets look at treating traumatized lions and make a donation to the SAVF rhino conservation fund

A group of eighty veterinarians gathered at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Faculty on 26 November 2011 to discuss the “emerging epidemic” – rhino poaching...Read More

Bursary

SAVF Pet Memorial Prize

At the recent oath taking ceremony of the 2011 Onderstepoort final year students Dr Liesl van Rooyen received the SAVF Pet Memorial Prize..Read more

Bursary

Student Bursaries 2011

The SAVF with the support of Lakato annually gives 2 undergraduate bursaries to veterinary students ...Read More

 

Cancer sufferer makes donation to SAVF

Nikita and the Joey Gracie Mc Connell Animal Foundation recently made a donation to the SA Veterinary Foundation to aid in canine cancer research. ..read more

 

SAVF supports international students’ exchange

The SAVF recently financially supported a visit to a Community Veterinary Clinic for a group of Onderstepoort and Spanish veterinary students. ..read more

Rhino Conservation 

Veterinarian donates R50 000 to the Rhino Conservation Fund

The Veterinary Foundation has the last two years been proactively involved in rhinoceros conservation projects. ..read more

 

SAB invests in technology to help save rhinos

The South African Breweries has made a landmark investment in technology to record and track wildlife species and enable police to track down poachers and syndicates who are preying on SA’s precious wildlife. ..read more

Pupil makes donation to Veterinary Foundation

Connor Wilson of Clifton Prep, Nottingham Road, KwaZulu recently raised more than R1000 for the South African Veterinary Foundation in memory of his pet mouse, JoJo, and his brother's Labrador retriever, Malaika, who both died of cancer early in 2010.  .. read more

SAVF launches a Rhino Conservation Fund

The SAVF launches a Rhino Conservation Fund to assist with anti-poaching operations, rewards for the successful arrests of poachers, establish databases, distribute information, support research on rhino diseases and contribute to the conservation of the rhino in general. You can support this worthy cause by making a donation or by buying a rhino statute. Click here for donation or buy a statue or .. read more about the fund

Treatment

Do or die for Croatian students

Fifteen veterinary students from Croatia visited South Africa recently as part of the International Veterinary Students Association exchange program. During their 2 week stay their program included exposure to community outreach activities. ...Read More

Treatment

Manual of Animal Use and Care

The aim of this project supported by the SA Veterinary Foundation is to collate, draw up, and publish sets of codes and to incorporate this information into a Manual of Animal Care and Use for use by interested parties ...Read More

Cheetah

Foundation supports the Cheetah Outreach Trust

The Cheetah Outreach Trust is based on the Spier Wine Estate in the Cape. One of the goals of the Trust is their belief that todays children are the future policy makers and conservationists of the country. ...Read More

Zambia

SA Veterinary Foundation supports IVSA project in Zambia

The SAVF recently supported the International Veterinary Students Association Development Fund Project to assist them to purchase computers for the Samora Machel School of Veterinary Medicine in Zambia. ...Read More