VN September 2020

Vetnews | September 2020 41 professor at the University of Pretoria. She contracted brucellosis in the middle of her final year and was invalided for three months. She requested an extension of the course into the following year and qualified in June 1961. After initial locum work in Johannesburg, Anne Lize joined the Division of Veterinary Services as state veterinarian, stationed in Pietermaritzburg, being involved in the control of a rabies epidemic, and attending to the animals at Cedara Agricultural College and two mental institutions. Protozoal and other infectious diseases and plant poisonings were rife, providing considerable field experience. Anne Lize was transferred to the Stellenbosch Veterinary Investigation Centre where she was involved in field (TB-control) and laboratory work (milk ring testing for brucellosis) and care of the animals at Elsenburg Agricultural College and other government institutions. Troubled by recurring brucellosis, she moved to the Onderstepoort Institute’s Bacteriology Section and established and managed a diagnostic laboratory and coped with six experimental vaccines. Anne Lize married fellow veterinarian David Mordant in 1967 and resigned her post at Onderstepoort when the couple moved to Johannesburg. She was at home for several years until she became a teacher in science and biology at the Townview High School in Krugersdorp where their daughters were pupils. In 1989 David, Anne Lize and a partner established Farm Feeds Services, an agricultural commodities trading business, initially based at home until they built their own office block in Krugersdorp. David and Anne Lize retired in 1998 and in 2010 they emigrated to Canada to join their surviving daughter and her family. They have travelled widely since retiring and are actively pursuing their respective hobbies – philately and the stock market (David) and gardening, sewing, and gardening (Anne Lize). v Did you Know?