Venue: CSIR Pretoria
Organiser: Erich Mennen
Venue: Radisson Blu Hotel Port Elizabeth
Organiser: Michael Solomons
Visiting Professor: Grégoire Chick & Jin Bo Tang
A C Boonzaier: Lecture Roger Nicholson
Venue: CSIR Pretoria
Organiser: Erich Mennen
Visiting Professor: Thomas Trumble & Martin Kirschner
A C Boonzaier: Lecture Angus Taylor
Venue: Champagne Sports Resort Drakensberg
Organiser: Nikki vd Walt
Visiting Professor: Mark Pickford
A C Boonzaier: Lecture Erich Mennen
The name of the Society shall be The South African Society for Surgery of the Hand, thereinafter called The Society. The Society shall be a Group within the South African Medical Association, an association incorporated under Section 21 of the Companies Act, 1973, registered No. 05/00136/08.
The following are the categories of membership:
Election to Full-, Associate-, Affiliate- or Corresponding Membership requires:
The Secretary of the Society shall be the Electoral Officer and shall advise members of the vacancies on the Executive Committee. He shall call for nominations duly proposed and seconded and accepted by candidates, these to be in his hand eight weeks before the Annual General Meeting.
Voting for the President-Elect and for the members of the Executive Committee shall be by postal ballot. Postal votes shall be sent out four weeks before the Annual General Meeting and should be returned to the Electoral Officer not later than seven days before the Annual General Meeting.
Counting of the votes shall take place at the Annual General Meeting by two scrutineers appointed by the Executive Committee.
The Society may take such action that may be deemed necessary in all matters affecting the interests of its members providing that The South African Medical Association as a whole be not involved or pledged to any action, and that any action contemplated by the Society be in conformity with the policy of The South African Medical Association.
Full Members and Members shall pay an entrance fee and an annual subscription, the amounts of these to be decided at the Annual General Meeting. It shall be competent from year to year to alter subscription by a majority vote at the AGM of the Society, after members have received one month's notice of such a proposed change.
Corresponding-, Associate- and Affiliate Members shall pay an annual subscription- but no entrance fee.
There is no entrance fee for Honorary Members and neither Honorary- nor Emeritus Members shall pay the annual subscription.
Annual subscriptions shall be payable to the Secretary by no later than the AGM; the Secretary shall notify members in arrears of subscriptions.
The Secretary shall submit an Annual Report and a Financial Statement to the Annual General Meeting of the Society. Copies of these plus a list of the Office Bearers and all members of the Society shall be sent to the Secretary-General of The South African Medical Association within thirty days of the Annual General Meeting.
Every member shall remain a member until his membership may be terminated by either:
Alterations to this Constitution shall be circulated to members at least one month before the Annual General Meeting and shall be ratified at the Annual General Meeting by a two-thirds majority as shown by a show of hands. Any amendment to the Constitution of the Society shall be approved by the Federal Council of The South African Medical Association before becoming operative.