UFH lecturer’s R10000 haircut for charity

University of Fort Hare tax lecturer Daylan Staude has kept his word and shaved his hair for cancer.

At the start of the month Staude, who takes pride in how he keeps his hair, dared his friends, students, and colleagues to help raise R2 000 and vowed to shave his head.

Last Friday was D-day and he had raised R10000 for the Cancer Association of South Africa.

“My head feels naked,” he said in a room full of colleagues cheering and joking about how he would look without hair.

Handy with the razor was Elizmare Moll, owner of Lizzi’s hair salon in Nahoon.

“I feel light, I never imagined that I would reach R10000. I’m totally blown away at the generosity.

“Some donated because they wanted to see me without hair, but others had personal reasons for donating. I’m taken aback,” he said.

Staude plans to give the money raised to Cansa by the end of this weekend.

“I’ve never been bald before. I will admit, I do sometimes wonder what I was thinking. It’s too late now.”

Yesterday Moll struggled a bit to finally get all the hair off, because, although he was aware of his fate, Staude, had put loads of gel on his locks for the last time.

The chartered accountant said the idea came while talking to his colleagues in the accounting department about cancer one Friday.

They challenged him to shave for the Cancer Shavathon. “If you know me at all you’ll know that my hair is always perfect,” he had said.

Colleagues took a video of Staude’s hair falling and they joined in the fun by spray-painting their hair in support of cancer.