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The Inge Lotz Foundation has donated R1 million to the Unit for Bioethics at Stellenbosch University which will enable it to tackle new research projects.
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Author: Lynne Rippenaar-Moses
Published: 19/05/2021
The Inge Lotz Foundation, which was established by her father Prof Jan Lotz after the 22-year old Stellenbosch University (SU) student was tragically murdered in her Welgevonden flat in Stellenbosch, has donated R1 million to the Unit for Bioethics at SU.
The Unit is situated in the Centre for Applied Ethics in the Philosophy Department of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and is headed up by Prof Anton van Niekerk, who specialises in bioethics, the philosophy of religion and philosophy of the human sciences. Van Niekerk is also the Director of the Centre, which consists of four units – the Unit for Bioethics, the Unit for Environmental Ethics, the Unit for Business Ethics and Public Integrity, and the Unit for Social and Political Ethics.