Mike Damp

Mike is passionate about the country of his birth. He was born in Durban at the dawn of Apartheid and medically educated in Cape Town. He worked for twenty-five years in rural Africa amongst the Zulus as an old-fashioned general surgeon. He has always loved the African bush and her indigenous people and has an equal passion for aviation. His aspiration to create a centre of surgical excellence in Zululand was demolished by the pre-independence civil war, the ravages of HIV/AIDS along with political and bureaucratic incompetence. As his world dissolved about him, he was offered a rural surgical appointment in South Australia.