As part of its 60th-anniversary celebrations, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is introducing 60 future healthcare professionals who are currently in their first year. Meet Mustafa Karbanee.Who says one can’t both have a black belt in karate and bake a mean chocolate cheesecake? Mustafa Karbanee indeed proves to me a young man of varied talents. Besides his academic prowess that led to his acceptance into the MB,ChB-program at the Stellenbosch University, he also enjoys writing poetry. The mantra he lives by even sounds poetic: “What is a life lived if not for others?” And this is exactly why Mustafa decided on a career in medicine. “I feel fulfilled when I’m able to help others,” he says. He would love the opportunity to work with Doctors without Borders (MSF) doing relief work in disaster-stricken areas, and preferably as a cardio-thoracic surgeon. And if his 40-year old self loses his fire, he would remind himself of the following: "The world needs people willing to sacrifice themselves in order to help others. Be the person you always dreamed of becoming."Four fast facts:

• He can’t go a day with eating chocolate.
• He cites stubbornness as his worst trait.
• If he could give a message to adults it would be to remind them that their children are only teenagers once. "Be firm and set boundaries fairly. But in just a heartbeat our teenage years will be over, so let us live.”
• If he could give a message to teens it would be to remember that in five years time the heartbreaks or disappointments they feel now probably won’t matter anymore.