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The mass spectrometry unit was opened by South Africa's Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor in 2014. [1] In 2018 a conference was held to mark ten years of a collaboration programme with CERN. [2] The main plant near Cape Town houses a number of accelerators that are used for various research purposes.
Nampak, Africa's largest packaging company, [4] is one of the largest companies to have operations in Epping. Other large companies in Epping Industria are SA Metal Group, Distell Ltd, AVI Ltd and Afrox. The Cape Town Market is one of the oldest and largest fresh produce markets in South Africa. It is over 50 years old and services over 5500 ...
The Cape Town Science Centre is a not-for-profit [1] science centre in Cape Town, South Africa. It forms part of a wide range of non-classroom initiatives to improve the quality of science understanding and science literacy in South Africa. Until early 2010, the MTN Sciencentre was located in the Canal Walk shopping mall. [2]
A shantytown in Cape Flats, Cape Town. Slums in South Africa exist in all major cities. There are also rural informal settlements. [1] The slums are listed below under the city or town they are nearest to.
The Silicon Cape Initiative is a private sector community movement that was founded by two South African high-tech entrepreneurs, Vinny Lingham and Justin Stanford. [1] [2] Both being entrepreneurs and angel investors in the information and communication technologies start-up sector in South Africa, they observed the unique confluence of circumstances emerging in their home country and in ...
Note: Mainstream Renewable Power Africa Holdings is a consortium in which the largest investor is Mainstream Renewable Power. [1] [2]In July 2022, the owners of the firm signed definitive sales agreements to relinquish ownership and transfer shareholding to Infinity Energy, a company based in Cairo, Egypt and Africa Finance Corporation, a development finance institution, based in Lagos, Nigeria.
In 1938, a significant scheme was initiated in Cape Town which involved the construction of around 12,000 houses at a cost of £6,000,000 ($30,000,000). The worst slum district, district VI, was part of the first phase which involved building the equivalent of a new town to house 31,000 people. [1]
When Cape Town finally started implementing the Group Areas Act, it did so more severely than any other major city; by the mid-1980s, it had become one of the most segregated cities in South Africa. [4] Plans to build Khayelitsha were first announced by Dr Piet Koornhof in 1983, then Minister of Co-operation and Development. By 1985, the suburb ...