The original publication is available at http://www.samj.org.zaThe Hamilton Naki Scholarship was introduced because of the
shortage of qualified academic leaders in South African medical
schools, especially for academic clinicians from previously
disadvantaged backgrounds. There were only a handful of African
academic doctors with a significant published record of scholarship
in South Africa. If academic physicians from the whole population
were not recruited and trained, South Africa would lose its ability to
train high-quality health practitioners. To address these deficiencies,
the Netcare Physician Partnerships Trust established a scholarship to
produce world-class academics in all medical specialties to teach and
conduct research comparable to other parts of the world
