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Waste material from the construction sector can now be used in an innovative green building block used to build low-cost RDP houses through a Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI)’ Circular Economy Demonstration Fund aimed at demonstrating proven circular economy interventions, such as, technologies, innovative process improvements, social innovations that have not yet achieved scale or impact in South Africa.
This milestone was marked on 11 April 2025 by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), who partnered with Use-It Waste Beneficiation NPC and Key Bricks (Pty) Ltd, to demonstrate the prototype. The DSTI Deputy Director-General for Socio-Economic Innovation Partnerships, Dr Mmboneni Muofhe and CSIR Executive Manager: Hosted Programmes, Bongani Memela presided over the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly built demonstration house.
The CSIR-hosted Alliance for Collaboration on Climate and Earth Systems Science (ACCESS), along with other CSIR researchers and partners, are assessing the economic impacts of wind disruptions, and they are supporting the Transnet National Port Authority (TNPA) and its clients with short- and long-term wind predictions.
At the peak of the fruit picking and packing season, it is normal for Cape Town’s gusty summer southeaster to swirl over and around Table Mountain and Devil’s Peak. It is normal for that strong Cape Doctor wind to then blow down to the bay, focusing, as if through a lens, onto container ships and cranes moving in the port.
On Friday 11 April, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an entity of the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation
The CSIR and the IEEE ComSoc hosted a workshop, including an expert panel, on how software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualisation (NFV) will impact the development of 5G. The aim of the session was to bring together expert engineers and researchers from the South African industry and academia who work in the telecommunications field.
The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande has congratulated the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for its contribution in shaping the country’s science, engineering and technology landscape.
The CSIR recently promoted its technological capabilities at an exhibit at the Department of Science and Innovation Budget Vote Panel Discussion at Iziko South African Museum. The organisation was represented at the Budget Vote by Group Executive for Business Excellence and Integration, Dr Kaven Naidoo.
The CSIR has developed a 10-step process to assess and reduce the risks of wildland fires and map the likelihood of fire.
In 1991, when Eskom contacted the CSIR with its need to visualise corona discharges on power distribution networks, no one could guess that two decades later the new start-up company resulting from
The CSIR is overseeing the design and construction of South Africa’s first purpose-designed science centre in Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape.