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#YouthMonth: Meet the Wessa interns driving SA’s green energy sector

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Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation joins the Climate Philanthropy Pledge

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Source: Supplied. Prof Lucy Gilson, the head of UCT’s Health Policy and Systems Division, was co-awarded the prestigious Virchow Prize in Germany.

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