Square Kilometre Array (SKA) South Africa director Bernie Fanaroff will retire at the end of next year. Former South African Nuclear Energy Corporation CEO Rob Adam will take over as “director designate” of the project, which will
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South Africa is producing too few doctoral graduates, science and technology minister Naledi Pandor said on Tuesday. Opening debate in parliament on her department’s R6,47bn budget, she told MPs the country currently turned
Africa’s first accelerator mass spectrometry facility was unveiled by science and technology minister Naledi Pandor in Johannesburg on Monday. The new facility, at iThemba Labs in Braamfontein, is being funded by Pandor’s department, the National Research Foundation and
Germany has pulled out of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation, a blow to the project that plans to build the world’s largest radio telescope. But while insiders lament Germany’s withdrawal, they do not see it as a death knell for the project. With thousands of antennae spread across South Africa and Australia
Germany has announced it will withdraw from the Square Kilometre Array organisation (SKA) in June next year, the science & technology ministry has said. “According to the SKA website, Germany informed the SKA on Thursday about its intention to leave the organisation,” spokesman Lunga Ngqengelele said
Science and maths education is progressively improving in South Africa, science & technology minister Naledi Pandor said on Wednesday. “To say we are at the bottom of a whole host of countries, based on perception, is a bit of a difficult one for me,” she told reporters in Pretoria. “The WEF report
Pensioners will be able to apply for smart identity document cards from February, home affairs minister Naledi Pandor said on Thursday. People would be invited to apply according to their month of birth, she said at a breakfast briefing hosted by The New Age in Johannesburg
There were many unanswered questions about a satellite reportedly commissioned eight years ago under the title “Project Flute”, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday. “It is time, after more than eight years and R1bn, for government to provide some straight answers about
Communications minister Yunus Carrim has been given a mixed report card by the Democratic Alliance in its analysis of the performance of cabinet ministers over the past year. Carrim has been given a “C” by the opposition political party for “attempting, with
Home affairs minister Naledi Pandor and finance minister Pravin Gordhan will decide whether to waive the fee for new smart ID cards, the home affairs department said on Thursday. “As [Pandor] has indicated in parliament, she is in discussion with national treasury regarding fees for certain