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CSIR Charity Golf Day
On Friday, 28 June 2024, the CSIR held its Charity Golf Day at Woodhill Country Club in Pretoria. The event, powered by H3C Technologies Africa (Pty) Ltd, proved to be a resounding success, gathering golfers, sponsors and supporters, all coming together to make a meaningful difference.
The primary objective of the CSIR Charity Golf Day was to raise funds to provide essential learning materials and enhance the learning experience of mathematics and science for students in rural communities.
CSIR Smart Places is currently engaged in a project to clear out the Environmental Labs in Pretoria and Durban. The cluster has decided to donate the remaining items to an external party. The remaining items are assets that are largely old, obsolete and/or in need of repair, and for most items, their residual value may only be in the recycling of components, parts and materials.
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On 12 - 18 May 2024, Professor Luzango Mfupe undertook a successful fact-finding and study tour mission to South Korea to participate in a series of high-level engagements, including meetings, capacity-building sessions and live demonstrations of wireless technology with officials from the national regulator, research institutes and industry stakeholders.
The course aims to provide comprehensive competency building and skills transfer across all aspects relating to biomanufacturing, emphasis will be around quality control considerations and hands-on training on key downstream unit operations, including fill and finish.
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The CSIR’s Taahira Goga and Dr Valentina Russo received the South African Journal of Science’s (SAJS) Outstanding Article Award for their paper on a lifecycle-based evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions from the plastics industry in South Africa.
The CSIR’s African Biomanufacturing Workforce Training and Skills Development Programme conferred certificates to 25 participants who completed training in biomanufacturing technologies on 23 May 2024.
Participants were drawn from academic institutions, small, medium and micro enterprises, industry organisations within the biomanufacturing sector and other research councils in Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.