Chairman’s Report
Terry Casey
Chairman SA Equine Veterinary Association Cell: 083 327 0237
May Already. The elections have come and gone. I
don’t think the results were a surprise to anyone. Who
knows if they will bring any change in the country.
Probably, none or very little in my humble opinion.
SAEVA has ,however, had a very active first five
months of the year.
As you all know Congress 2019 has come and gone.
I think all of you who attended will agree that it was
an awesome congress. Firstly “Thanks Very Much“
to your next chairperson, Angela Rodgers, for doing
the organisation. The multiple speakers and dual
sessions were all superbly coordinated in my opinion.
This year’s speakers certainly had a diverse range of
topics. Jessica Kidd with a surgery slant, Lee Morris
with a reproductive slant and Joe Collins talking about
donkeys. All the speakers contributed in their own
ways. I know that I look at donkeys with different eyes
now (not sure my opinion of repro work has changed
much though).
Those of you that attended this congress will know
that we tried out a few new changes to the congress.
Holding the congress over the weekend seemed to be
well liked so it will continue in this format for next
year’s congress. The positive comments were that it
freed up more people to come to the congress, and
it was also less time away from the practice. One of
the negative effects though is that holding the congress
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over the weekend does make some event, like for
example the gala dinner more expensive to run. The
benefits still seem to outweigh the drawbacks. While
we are on that topic, next year’s congress will be from
the 19th (the cocktail evening) to the 23rd of February
2020. It will be held in the Kruger or close to a Kruger
park gate. A well renowned medicine specialist has so
far been confirmed for next year and we are looking at
obtaining a speaker with a pre-purchase slant.
Those of you that attended this year’s congress should
have received an email with a link allowing you to
view the larger majority of this year’s talks in a vimeo
format. If you have not received this link please could
you let one of the members of the Board of Directors
(more about this later) know. If for whatever reason
you were unable to attend this year’s congress, you
can retrospectively attend the congress by buying the
congress talks. Access to these talks can be obtained
from the website. Please check the list of available
talks in the “events” section and then get in contact
with Madaleen Schultheiss for Vetlink to organise you
access. After next year’s congress (2020), these talks
will be placed on the website so that they can be
viewed free of charge.
As an extra benefit to all the members all the talks that
were filmed from Skukuza 2017 will also be placed
on the website shortly. Please keep a look out for this.
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