Speaking to City Press on the racial dynamics in the medical industry, as well as his own experience of alleged racial targeting, Professor Shisana Baloyi, the academic head of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of the Free State said: “We haven’t even moved an inch in addressing racism and systemic racial issues in this country.
In 2018, Baloyi was embroiled in a controversy, which he says was a racially motivated attack on his integrity, with the College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and its custodian body, the Colleges of Medicine of SA . This was after he was accused of leaking questions for a gynaecology module exam by giving students as “mock” test earlier that year.As a result of that accusation, he was removed from the examiners’ panel, despite having not seen the examination paper in question before the exam.
Today, Baloyi is still championing the cause of black medical students, and says he is now in another fight to help three psychiatry speciality candidates who passed their written and oral exams, but are being denied their specialisation due to technicalities. “If you look at the admission criteria, the black child hasn’t been favoured. The majority of students coming out are still white and when they say, ‘Oh well, there are black students going through as well’, it’s mostly coloureds and Indians they are talking about.”
“Black scientists encounter discrimination when they embark on a science career in Western countries. The overwhelming message from their experiences is that the culture of academic science where black scientists are underrepresented is riddled with deeply entrenched racism of various forms and subtleties,” Makgoba wrote.
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