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Donors can earn tickets to the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 JOHANNESBURG, 11 October 2018 – The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) and Global Citizen today announced a partnership to highlight the importance of donating blood #ForLife. Global Citizen will partner with SANBS to motivate young South Africans to donate blood in order to […]
Every time blood is donated it is tested and separated into its components, red blood cells, plasma and platelets. Each of these components is potentially given to patients with different conditions. The majority of the blood goes to hospitals to treat gynaecological conditions. One such patient who received the blood, is Thandeka Monageng. She received […]
• Are you passionate about saving lives? • Are you keen on being the ‘eyes and ears” of the Blood Service in your community? • Have you got ideas about creating awareness about the importance of blood donation in your community? • Are you willing to assist the Blood Service in overcoming blood shortages? Then […]
If it weren’t for the SANBS, who knows what people would do to get blood when they needed it? We created evocative scenarios where this alternative was crafted into reality. The public was confronted with the possibility of people selling blood on the streets. Needless to say, the consumers were shocked by these situations and […]
On 14 June, the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) celebrated the globally recognised World Blood Donor Day in style. One of the highlights of the celebrations at the SANBS Headquarters, included a song launch and spectacular performance featuring South African pop icons, Vusi Nova and Amanda Black. The new single, titled Gaz’lam, celebrates blood […]
“It really is an awesome thing to do,” says blood recipient Jacob Mohapi. He received blood on two occasions due to horrific car accidents. Thanks to South Africa’s dedicated pool of blood Jacob – and thousands of others with life-threatening conditions – joins the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) in encouraging to South Africans […]
Attention, all South African brands: the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) wants to (temporarily) “steal” a few letters from your name. But it’s for an excellent cause! In an innovative bid to attract new, young blood donors, the blood service will again take part in the international Missing Type campaign, from 11 to 18 […]
They are young, dynamic and bursting with ideas to propel the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) into the 21st century. Meet the inaugural Millennial Board of the SANBS, which is injecting fresh “blood” into the blood service. Known as the “Mill_Board”, it is made up of 10 SANBS employees from around the country who, […]
SANBS’s hyperimmune campaign won gold at the prestigious Prism Awards on Sunday night. The Prism Awards are dedicated to outstanding achievements in the field of public relations and communications management in Southern Africa. “We’ve been struggling with the shortage of hyperimmune plasma regular donors in the past years. And we wanted a campaign that would […]
1. About SANBS SANBS is a Non-Profit Organisation incorporated in terms of the Companies Act. The mandate of SANBS is to provide blood transfusion and related services. The company provides an essential life-saving service to patients, hospitals and the medical profession in South Africa through collecting, processing and issuing safe blood for South Africans. SANBS […]
