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The Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, Derek Hanekom, the Deputy Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Rejoice Mabudafhasi, and the Executive Mayor of the Amathole District Municipality, Ms Nomasikizi Konza, will launch the Accelerating Sustainable Water Services Delivery project o
To mark World Water Day (22 March 2012), East London will see the celebration of two successful pilots involving social franchising partnerships for water and sanitation service delivery.
A group of researchers at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are the first in Africa to establish a groundbreaking biomedical stem cell technology, which could hold the key to finding cures to some of Africa's most significant diseases.
Johannesburg - Nestlé, the world's leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company, has announced on 5 March 2012 ground-breaking research partnership with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), a science council which reports to the Minister of Science and Technology.
"The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has gone from strength to strength, and is still, as it was in the 1950s, the biggest and best-resourced science laboratory complex in the country," said the Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, at the inaugural CSIR board meeting
The CSIR and its industry partners - the Department of Science and Technology (DST), National Research Foundation (NRF), Aerospace Industry Support Initiative (AISI) and Aerosud - will launch a multimillion-rand Additive Manufacturing platform.
The Digital Drum, a co-creation by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has been cited by the world's largest weekly news magazine, Time Magazine, as one of the top 50 inventions in the world for 2011.
The CSIR has developed a novel process to reclaim high-quality precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) from calcium-rich industrial solid waste.
Scientists must make critical contributions to ensure food security and environmental sustainability.