<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><div><div class="AppleOriginalContents"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="position: relative;" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: GillSans; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="position: absolute; z-index: 251658240; margin-left: 675px; margin-top: 11px; width: 158px; height: 89px;" class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/The-World-Academy-of-Sciences-Regional-Office-for-Sub-Saharan-Africa-984774534934965" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); 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font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">Kind regards<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Mr Kholani Mbhiza<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Liaison Officer<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">International Liaison programme<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Switchboard: +27 12 349 6600 <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Tel: +27 12 349 6638 <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Cell: +27 78 171 6175<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Fax: +27 86 461 7669<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-ZA" class=""><a href="mailto:thandi@assaf.org.za" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;" class="">kholani@assaf.org.za</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> Twitter:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-ZA" class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/TWAS_ROSSA" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: rgb(46, 116, 181);" class="">@TWAS_ROSSA</span></a></span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; 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