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Telling Stories, Enriching Lives

Last month the Russel Botman Bursary Fund celebrated its ninth anniversary at the annual Russel Botman Memorial Lecture. It was once again another occasion for us to remember the life

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Looking back, going forward

October 2013 saw the establishment of the Russel Botman Bursary Fund on Prof Botman’s 60th and last birthday. Two years later the first Russel Botman Memorial Lecture took place while celebrating

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Mandela Day

SMALL ACT OF KINDNESS One can become despondent by the enormity of challenges that just do not seem to dissipate. Robert Steiner reminded me that the opposite of hope is

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Becoming

Professor Russel Botman knew very well that changing the present for a better future necessitates a process of becoming. As a student activist and leader for social justice in the 70s

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