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Remarks by President Cyril Ramaphosa during a visit at the CSIR Pretoria campus
1. Call for Proposals: Collaborative Programme in Additive Manufacturing to Support the Development of the Additive Manufacturing Industry
International research shows that high crop loads are associated with high water demands. However, CSIR senior researcher Dr Sebinasi Dzikiti explains that no information currently exists on the water requirements of high-yielding apple orchards in South Africa and elsewhere. Thus, to support apple growers in a country saddled with water challenges, the CSIR has partnered with the Water Research Commission (WRC), the Agricultural Research Council, the South African Apple and Pear Producers Association represented by Hortgro Science, and the Universities of Stellenbosch and Pretoria to determine the water requirements of fruit trees with a particular focus on apple trees, from planting to full bearing age.
The Northern Cape province’s town of De Aar will become one of the very few in South Africa to drill and pump its boreholes strategically using scientific maps of underground aquifers. Harrison Pienaar, an aquifer expert at the CSIR, is calling on all South African waterboards, mayors, municipal managers and communities to conduct cost-effective groundwater surveys, ensuring compliance with the national directive to diversify municipal water supply.
Like the rest of the Northern Cape (NC), the parched and sunbaked town of De Aar in the Emthanjeni Local Municipality relies almost entirely on groundwater. Read more...
Honourable President, on behalf of South Africa’s public system science system, I wish to thank you once again for accepting our invitation to visit one of the South Africa’s most premier public science and technology institutions - the CSIR.
Mr. President, as you know, the core mandate of the Ministry, and Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI), is to promote and support South Africa’s national development agenda, as expressed in the National Development Plan (NDP) and the strategic policy priorities set by the 7th Administration. Click here for the full speech.
In this edition of ScienceScope [FlipBook], we feature some of the dynamic individuals of Team CSIR who work in a variety of career types required by a multidisciplinary organisation dedicated to touching lives through innovation.
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Watch these careers on video: laser physicist, metallurgist, molecular biologist.