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Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - 00:00

During the 2018 Budget Speech, it was announced that the standard rate of value-added tax (VAT) will change from 14% to 15% with effect from 1 April 2018.

As such, the CSIR as a VAT vendor will change the standard VAT rate for goods and services provided to our stakeholders and clients from 14% to 15% with effect from 1 April 2018 in order to comply with the legislation and regulatory requirements.

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Thursday, August 15, 2019 - 00:00

The Tshwane Women in Transport (TWIT) announced its partnership with HERE Technologies – leaders in digitised mapping and pioneers of in-car navigation systems since 1985 – by launching the digital mapping programme at the CSIR recently.

Addressing TWIT members at the launch, City of Tshwane Member of Mayoral Committee for Roads and Transport Councillor Lynn Senkubuge said by engaging women and men, together, towards gender equality ‘South Africans will make it happen’.

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Date: 
Monday, April 4, 2022 - 00:00

In the latest edition of ScienceScope, learn more about R&D to build competitive industries, such as a novel packaging solutions for the food and beverage sector, and work that contributes to a capable state, such as the development of a novel smartphone-based system for point-of-care diagnostics.

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Monday, March 6, 2023 - 13:00

The new MoU was signed on the sidelines of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's state visit to South Africa on 28 February. The visit was aimed at strengthening political and economic relations between the two countries.

President Cyril Ramaphosa hosted President Museveni at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, and the two countries concluded a number of MoUs on various matters.

The partnership agreement signed between the UIRI and the CSIR, an entity of the Department of Science and Innovation, builds on the 2011 partnership agreement entered into following a study that found the Ugandan tropical climate and fertile land favourable for essential oil crops.

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Date: 
Wednesday, June 21, 2023 - 12:15

Researchers in South Africa and across the globe have, through regular monitoring of the ENSO system, presented evidence that a moderate-to-strong El Niño is developing in 2023.

Speaking at the El Niño 2023 Summit held at the University of Pretoria, CSIR senior researcher and ACCESS Director, Dr Neville Sweijd, emphasised the need for early preparation in anticipation of the potential impacts of the 2023 El Niño in South Africa and its neighbouring countries.

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Date: 
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 00:00

The Meraka Institute of South Africas CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) has taken the lead in organising the one-day Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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Date: 
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 00:00

Researchers at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are one step closer to providing Tuberculosis (TB) sufferers with a once-a-week medicinal regime rather than their current daily doses.

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Date: 
Friday, March 26, 2010 - 00:00

Paul Nordengen was elected President of the International Forum for Road Transport Technology (IFRTT) at a meeting held in mid-March in Melbourne, Australia.

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Date: 
Monday, June 26, 2017 - 00:00

The council tasked with the country’s scientific development says it wants to produce more PhD graduates so it can expand its research capability and output.

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Date: 
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 00:00

Over the past 15 years, the African Laser Centre (ALC) based at the Council for Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR) has contributed immensely to the development of young researchers in Science, T