Another junket coming up
It's hard to come up with any dirt on South African minister of Science and Technology Mosibudi Mangena. It seems that he limits himself to stating the obvious and hosting science fairs. The taxpayer is paying and hoping the get value for their money.
Without science and scientists, Africa is doomed to fail in the implementation of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG), Minister of Science and Technology Mosibudi Mangena said at a media briefing on Monday.
"We need to be a nation of scientists not only because we are competing with other nations, but more importantly so that we can fight enemies such as poverty, infectious diseases like HIV/Aids, malaria or tuberculosis and lifestyle-related illnesses such as malnutrition, obesity and diabetes.
"We need science to calculate and mitigate the effects of global warming, severe storms, over-fishing, pollution and a host of other problems," he said.
The eight millennium goals, which must be fulfilled by 2015, are: the eradication of extreme poverty by half; the achievement of universal primary education; the promotion of gender equality; the reduction of the death rate among children under the age of five by two thirds; the reduction of the maternal death rate by three quarters; reversal of the spread of HIV/Aids, malaria and other major diseases; sustainable access to safe drinking water; and the development of open trading and financial systems that do not discriminate.
One of the ways the Department of Science and Technology will be fulfilling the eighth MDG -- the development of further open trading and financial systems and making available the benefits of new technological discoveries -- is by hosting the International Science Innovation and Technology Exhibition (Insite) at the Sandton convention centre from September 25 to 27.
Entry to Insite will be free to the public. There will be science shows, seminars and a speaker's corner where scientific and technological challenges and solutions for the developing and developed world will be discussed. Link
Without science and scientists, Africa is doomed to fail in the implementation of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG), Minister of Science and Technology Mosibudi Mangena said at a media briefing on Monday.
"We need to be a nation of scientists not only because we are competing with other nations, but more importantly so that we can fight enemies such as poverty, infectious diseases like HIV/Aids, malaria or tuberculosis and lifestyle-related illnesses such as malnutrition, obesity and diabetes.
"We need science to calculate and mitigate the effects of global warming, severe storms, over-fishing, pollution and a host of other problems," he said.
The eight millennium goals, which must be fulfilled by 2015, are: the eradication of extreme poverty by half; the achievement of universal primary education; the promotion of gender equality; the reduction of the death rate among children under the age of five by two thirds; the reduction of the maternal death rate by three quarters; reversal of the spread of HIV/Aids, malaria and other major diseases; sustainable access to safe drinking water; and the development of open trading and financial systems that do not discriminate.
One of the ways the Department of Science and Technology will be fulfilling the eighth MDG -- the development of further open trading and financial systems and making available the benefits of new technological discoveries -- is by hosting the International Science Innovation and Technology Exhibition (Insite) at the Sandton convention centre from September 25 to 27.
Entry to Insite will be free to the public. There will be science shows, seminars and a speaker's corner where scientific and technological challenges and solutions for the developing and developed world will be discussed. Link
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