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With South Africa now in the grip of veld fires in dry parts where the summer rains have not yet brought relief, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has announced that its Advanced Fire Information System (AFIS) has been upgraded.
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has announced that it has exceeded most of its targets and has achieved a solid overall performance for its 2009/10 financial year.
Johannesburg, 8 March 2011 - South Africa’s consistently high total cost of logistics decreased by just 1.2% between 2008 and 2009, from 14.7% to 13.5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
The Department of Water Affairs has joined forces with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to make the Vaal Dam the first dam in South Africa to use internet social media to disseminate information via facebook and twitter.
It is estimated that poverty-related diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), chagas disease, HIV/Aids and others kill approximately 14 million people annually.
A two-year study of the quality of irrigation water from Loskop Dam and its effect on crop production in the Groblersdal area, funded by the Loskop Irrigation Board (LIB), has shown very low levels of E. coli and no detectable levels of other disease-causing bacteria.
The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and the CSIR Meraka Institute, based in Pretoria, have joined hands to create one of the largest Artificial Intelligence research centres on the continent: the UKZN/CSIR-Meraka Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR).
Information and communications technology (ICT) is a potent tool for socio economic upliftment in Africa. This is the premise upon which presentations, discussions and debates at the 4th EuroAfrica Cooperation Forum on ICT Research will be based.
The CSIR Meraka Institute and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) have announced that phase 1 of the South African National Research Network (SANReN) is now complete.
The CSIR Meraka Institute and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) have announced that the Centre for High Performance Computing`s (CHPC) Tsessebe Sun Constellation System has been ranked as one of the world¿s fastest supercomputers, taking 329th place in the international Top 500 list.