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[3] [10] By mid-2011, only 92 research chairs had been established, [2] though they accounted for an outsized proportion of the country's total research output – comprising 1.5 per cent of all active researchers in South Africa, they produced 4.5 per cent of national research outputs. [11] By 2015, the number of research chairs had grown to ...
South African Population Research Infrastructure Network (SAPRIN) is a demographic surveillance system (DSS) that is intended to gather and harmonize national health and demographic data. [1] This network [ 2 ] or partnership [ 3 ] or platform [ 4 ] offers stakeholders, public and academic institutions data, an interdisciplinary research ...
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is a South African scientific research and development (R&D) organisation. It was established by an act of parliament in 1945 and is situated on its campus in Pretoria. [3] It is Africa's largest research and development organisation and accounts for about 10% of the entire African R&D ...
The NRF has three main functions: to support research and innovation, through its agency, Research and Innovation Support and Advancement (RISA); to encourage an interest in science and technology through its business unit, the South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA);
Retrenchment (French: retrenchment, an old form of retranchement, from retrancher, to cut down, cut short) is an act of cutting down or reduction, particularly of public expenditure. [ 1 ] Political usage
The Government of South Africa, or South African Government, is the national government of the Republic of South Africa, a parliamentary republic with a three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary, operating in a parliamentary system. Legislative authority is held by the Parliament of South Africa.
There are a large number and variety of statutes in South Africa—including Acts, ordinances, proclamations, by-laws, rules and regulations. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] As of 1993, statute law is to be found on all three levels of government ( national , provincial and local ), and as such affects every governmental sphere, and although generally referred to ...
Between 1911 and 1918, a succession of laws was promulgated in South Africa which dealt with various industrial sectors, and with labour in general. Only in the aftermath of large-scale industrial unrest on the Witwatersrand in 1922, however, was any comprehensive attempt undertaken to regulate relations between management and organised labour.