ASSAf News

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) has extended its congratulations to the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Naledi Pandor, who graduated with a PhD in Education from the University of Pretoria on 16 June 2019.

The South African Journal of Science is a scholarly open access, multidisciplinary journal published bimonthly by the Academy of Science of South Africa. The Journal’s mandate is to publish original research with an interdisciplinary and regional African focus, as well as to provide a forum for the discussion of news and developments in research and higher education.

The Royal Society of South Africa and the Academy of Acience of South Africa invite you to a free public lecture by Dr Kevin Winter of the Environmental and Geographical Science and a lead researcher in the Future Water Institute at at the University of Cape Town entitled Can Day Zero be Postponed Indefinitely?

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) expresses its condolences on the passing of the pioneering biologist, Dr Sydney Brenner, Foreign Associate Member of ASSAf. Sydney Brenner was a two-time recipient of the Canada Gairdner International Award and the 2002 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.

Dear ASSAf Members, the annual process of nominating and electing new Members to ASSAf has commenced in accordance with Regulation 1 of the Academy, and you are herewith requested to submit nominations by using the  nomination form (link below) (revised from 2018).

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) cordially invites you to the launch of a Consensus Study titled Twelve Years Later: Second ASSAf Report on Research Publishing in and from South Africa (2018).

Italy and South Africa have a longstanding relationship in the arts, culture, science, technology and innovation. As part of commemorating this relationship, the Italian Embassy in South Africa and the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), supported by the National Research Foundation (NRF), will be co-hosting a one-day workshop at the NRF on 5 April 2019 in Pretoria, South Africa.

ASSAf Study – Postgraduate Engineering Key for Future Growth – Media Release Postgraduate engineering training and research to position South Africa in the high-technology manufacturing sector are critical and government is urged to develop such a vision, and the higher education sector to support it.