Chairperson, by investing in STI, the Department is focusing on enabling all stakeholders of our society to participate in ensuring that South Africa… - Trusty Gina

Science, technology and innovation must never be understood as for the specialized elite divorced from society that it finds itself.

As part of this societal focus, South Africa plays a significant role in advancing the global knowledge base on climate change and environmental sustainability.

Opportunities and challenges include persistently high levels of poverty and unemployment; the fact that our society remains one of the most unequal in the world; governance challenges, a maturing democracy, demographic shifts including a youth dividend, high-levels of crime including unacceptably high levels of gender-based violence. The above will be achieved through the establishment of National Research Institutes.