PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE FOR TRADE

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PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE FOR
TRADE INDUSTRY AND THE SELECT COMMITTEE FOR
ECONOMIC AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS

• 6 March 2002
• Dr Sibusiso Sibisi
• President and Chief Executive Officer
• and
• Dr Anthos Yannakou
• Executive Vice President Business Development

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Our Mandate

• Constituted as a Science Council by an Act of
  Parliament
• In the national interest, the CSIR, through
  directed and multi-disciplinary research and
  technological innovation, should foster
  industrial and scientific development, either by
  itself, or in partnership with public or private
  sector institutions, to contribute to the
  improvement of the quality of life of the people
  in South Africa.

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CSIR Facts Figures

• Annual turnover of over R810 million per annum.
• Approaching external funding of 60.
• Staff complement of 2 583 including over 692
  post-graduate qualified (PhD/MSc), 1076 graduates
  and over 422 Technikon-qualified staff.
• Eight major operating Business Units, active in
  fields ranging from aeronautics, bio/chemical
  technologies, materials, mining, information and
  communications, clothing and textiles,
  manufacturing, through to housing, transport,
  food processing and the environment.
• Major laboratories in Pretoria, Johannesburg,
  Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Port Elizabeth and
  Durban, with representation in all provinces.
• Approximately 150 000 visitors per year,
  including clients, international visitors,
  stakeholders, students, scholars and suppliers.
• More than 7 000 clients are served each year.
• Internationally, we
• have cooperation agreements with major overseas
  RD organisations and companies
• have grown our international contract income by
  over 20 per annum in the last three financial
  years
• are currently working with 18 African countries.

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Reporting and Funding Structure
Parliament (Shareholder)
Minister of Trade and Industry
CSIR Board
CSIR Executive Management Board
DTI/CSIR Bilateral
DACST
Ventures/Equity Partnerships Contract
Income Royalties
CSIR Strategic Initiatives Business Units
DTI
Core Funding
Innovation Fund
Innovation Hub AIDC National Imperatives
Key Projects
Competence Building
Relevance and Impact
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The CSIR Board
Mr Roger Jardine (Chairman of the Board) Chief
Executive Kagiso Media
Mr Kymus Ginwala Northern Research Engineering
Corporation Massachusetts, USA
Dr Zav Rustomjee Special Advisor to the
Minister Dept. of Trade Industry
Prof. Anton Eberhard IIRR Management Programme
University of Cape Town
Ms Nobusi Shikwane Chief Executive Officer
B2Bafrica Holdings
Ms Joan Joffe Group Executive Corporate Affairs
Vodacom
Dr Dhiro Gihwala Dean Faculty of
Science Peninsula Technikon
Mr Eugene van As Executive Chairman Sappi Ltd
Ms Anne Letsebe Deputy Director-General Head of
Cabinet Office Office of the Presidency
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CSIR Parliamentary Grant External Income

• Nominal rands

FCForecast, BBudget, PPlan
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The CSIR/DTI Bilateral

• Purpose
• The Institutional Framework for Cooperation
  aims at aligning and enhancing
• interaction between the CSIR and DTI in
  support of national priorities.
• Areas of cooperation
• The CSIR and the DTI have identified and
  agreed upon a number of medium-term
• objectives, which will be implemented within
  the institutional co-operation framework
• to contribute to the African Renaissance.
  These objectives are summarized as follows
• Science and technology contributions to the
  development of industrial technology
• policy
• Raising awareness in industry of the role of
  technological innovation and
• knowledge management in improving the
  competitiveness of the economy
• Building national, regional and international
  alliances and partnerships to
• strengthen core competences and develop new
  competences.
• Development of SMMEs

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DTI/CSIR Institutional Framework for
CooperationCSIR/DTI Bilateral Approved Projects
Project Name
1. Website for Chemical Industry to develop an Internet-based portal for the SA chemical industry
2. IT Re-engineering of DTI
3. Ntsika Project Export Readiness Assessment of SMMEs / Ntsika Programme Manager of Trade and Investment Development Programme
4. Trade Investment Development Programme Khula Guarantee Technology Transfer
5. Ceramics Export Council (kick start fund)
6. Establishment of National Plant Fibre Technology Centre (NPFTC)
7. Evaluation of Supply-side proposals
8. CSIR Support to the ICT Directoreate of DTI
9. Information and Decision support system for the Millennium Partnership for the African Recovery Programme (MAP) on Internet and CD ROM
10. DTI Searching and Examination System for South African Patent and Trade Marks Office (SAPTO), DTI
11. Regulatory and Enabling Aspects of the Intellectual Property (IP) System
12. SAPTO Information Strategy
13. Intellectual property and its use in the SMME sector of the South African economy
14. Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS)
15. Textile Technology Audit Survey of technology drivers, age nature in the industry
16. Venture Capital Seed Fund
17. Technology for Women in Business
18. Optimising modal choice for freight land transport to improve South Africas international trade competitiveness
19. Development of high-value agricultural products clusters Pilot Project 1. Makhatini Flats, KZN
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DTI Key Performance Areas (outcomes)

• Increasing the number and opportunities to grow
  and expand the SMME sector,
• Providing opportunities for the economic
  empowerment of historically disadvantaged
  individuals,
• Reducing levels of inequality and poverty in
  South Africa,
• Contributing to the competitiveness of SA
  enterprises,
• Contributing to the economic development of
  Africa and specifically the SADC,
• Increasing economic growth and the number of
  sustainable economic opportunities available to
  all South Africans and
• Improving the organisational efficiency and
  efficacy of the DTI.

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Increasing the Number Opportunities to Grow
Expand the SMME Sector

• Investment in sustainable development integrative
  thrust (SMMEs and Rural Development),
• Involvement in MAC programme, Brain, Technology
  Stations,
• CSIR spin-off companies, e.g. AGRiMAGE (Pty) Ltd
  (satellite imagery for precision farming) and
• Bioincubator and Software incubators as part of
  Godisa programme.

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Providing Opportunities for the Economic
Empowerment of Historically Disadvantaged
Individuals

• NHRD through the Department of Labour, Sector
  Education Training Authorities (SETAs),
  Integrated Skills Development Programme for small
  business, Technology for Women in Business,
• Links to tertiary education institutes, e.g.
  Innovation Fund projects with Universities
  (Medunsa, Transkei, North, Fort Hare, Venda,
  Vista, Zululand) and Technikons (ML Sultan) and
• Hooked on Hemp (Eastern Cape) project community
  farmers involved in profitable participation in
  the cultivation, processing manufacturing and
  marketing of South African hemp.

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Reducing Levels of Inequality and Poverty in
South Africa

• Various projects under poverty alleviation focus
  of DACST, DEAT and Department of Transport,
• Suurbraak, Western Cape safe drinking available
  to the community through provision of suitable
  and sustainable technology appropriate for rural
  water treatment and the innovative distribution
  of drinking water and
• Indigenous foods promotion and commercialisation
  of South Africas indigenous foods through
  stimulation of sustainable enterprises, to foster
  job creation and to empower women

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Contributing to the Competitiveness of South
African Enterprises

• R225.5m contract income from SA private sector,
• Top Technology 100 Award in 2000 Presidents
  Award for Export Achievement and
• Multi-purpose fine chemicals plant available for
  toll production of trial products for market
  testing and regulatory approval.

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Contributing to the Economic Development of
Africa and Specifically the SADC

• CSIR is involved in at least 18 African
  countries, including SADC many projects in
  environmental, food, ICT and mining sectors,
• Projects funded under SADC Regional ST project,
  involving, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Tanzania,
  Malawi, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia and
• EC funded (INCO-DEV DGXII) research projects
  e.g. development of novel drying technique for
  high quality fruit (CSIR and Mozambique, Uganda,
  Zambia, Sweden, Spain, Ireland) utilization of
  cassava, soybeans and palm oil (CSIR and Germany,
  Denmark, Belgium, Benin, Kenya).

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Increasing Economic Growth and the Number of
Sustainable Economic Opportunities Available to
All South Africans

• SAFARI 2000 CSIR, University of the
  Witwatersrand, NASA and University of Virginia
  study of southern Africas ecosystems, air
  quality and land use to understand the
  sustainability of the regions sensitive and
  pressured ecosystems,
• Satour and CSIR joint venture integrated tourism
  package on CD (VEZA) to plan tours, package
  products and market tourism in the country and
• I-port unique transportation support product to
  provide a focused, well-researched public
  transport database.

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CSIRs NEPAD Involvement
INFRASTRUCTURE Transportek, Environmentek and
Boutek NEPAD are conducting an audit of Africas
infrastructure, assessing development
methodologies, and providing mechanisms for
strengthening the African science and technology
competence to develop the infrastructural
base. PEACE SECURITY CSIR Defencetek is
leading a process to harness CSIR competences to
contribute to Africas Peace, Security and
Reconstruction processes. MANUFACTURING With
Africas recovery heavily resting on value
addition and the beneficiation of Africas
natural resources. CSIR is helping to develop
products and services for export, and provide the
necessary infrastructural base, including
ICT. ICT CSIR is interacting with all key
players responsible for the leadership and
management of the NEPAD ICT process including the
e-Africa commission.
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Additional CSIR Contributions to NEPAD

• Development and production of an information and
  decision support Website and accompanying CD.
  This project is being financed through the
  DTI/CSIR Institutional Cooperation Framework.
  The project sponsors are the Director General of
  the DTI and Professor Wiseman Nkuhlu of the
  Presidents Office,
• Contribution to the chapter on Diversification of
  Exports RD Strategies and Interventions, a
  consolidated input from the CSIR, coordinated by
  DTI,
• Contribution to the infrastructure chapter on the
  RD infrastructure in Africa-Proposals to
  strengthen and enhance RD capacity in Africa,
  consolidated inputs from CSIR, as coordinated by
  DACST and
• Support to the Presidents Office on the NEPAD
  Technical Committee by CSIR.

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An annual Selection of CSIR African Initiatives,
Projects, Contracts

• Zimbabwe
• SADC Database of Landcover Natural resources
• Cross Border Pollution in SADC

• Benin
• Increasing the protein and vitamin content of
  gari using a substrate combination of cassava,
  soybeans and palm oil

• Ethiopia
• Management, metrology and testing expertise

• Ghana
• Strengthening African food processing

• Kenya
• Increasing the protein and vitamin content of
  gari using a substrate combination of cassava,
  soybeans and palm oil

• Senegal
• Strengthening African food processing

• Nigeria
• Feasibility study to determine viability of
  restoring Bar Beach, develop it as a waterfront
  tourism gateway for Nigeria

• Swaziland
• SADC Database of Landcover Natural resources

• Angola
• AGIP EIS for the 3D Seismic Over Block 25
• Tsabong Water Supply
• Cuntala Environmental Impact Review
• Drilling EIA Block 22
• Panama Block 2/3 Pipeline EIA

• Tanzania
• SADC Database of Landcover Natural resources
• Overloading management system

• Malawi
• Assess the access needs of people with various
  disabilities
• Assists in developing safe waste disposal
  practices in Malawi
• SADC Database of Landcover Natural resources
• SADC FSTCU GIS Training
• Malawi MOW Axle Load Study
• Feasibility Study on the use of concrete roads

• Zambia
• Cross Border Pollution in SADC
• Alleviating Hazardous Locations

• Namibia
• Developing control measures for Nitrate Hazards
  in groundwater
• NAMDEB Directional Waves Stage 2
• Elizabeth Bay Monitoring 2000/2002 Bathymetric
  Survey 2001
• Namibian Water Policy
• Rossing Uranium ACID Importation Process
• Shell Kudu Gas EIA
• Kudu Seimic Survey EIA

• Mauritius
• Small and Medium Industrial Development

• Lesotho
• SADC Database of Landcover Natural resources
• Training in mass, volume temperature metrology
• Baseline Impact Studies
• Waste water management
• Environmental risk assessment course

• Botswana
• Strengthening African food processing
• Preparation of Botswanas First National
  Communications Report on Climate Change
• Developing control measures for Nitrate Hazards
  in ground water
• Cross Border Pollution in SADC
• Modification of Whey/Design of affordable
  nutraceuticals for AIDS
• Tsabong Water Supply
• Jwaneng to Sekoma Road Rehabilitation
• Comparative Transport cost Analysis in Southern
  Africa
• Safety of paved gravel roads
• Guidelines on low volume sealed rural roads

• Mozambique
• Assesses the access needs of people with
  various disabilities
• Basic research on the effects of explosives and
  mines on targets and to develop countermeasures
• Review of Phase 2 Smelter Development (MOZAL)
• Strengthening African food processing
• World Wide Web Access in Mozambique

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National Metrology Laboratory of the CSIR
Funding received by the NML for the DTI for the
execution of the responsibilities of maintaining
and developing the National Measuring Standards
(NMS) as

• required by the National Measuring Units and
  Measurement Standards Act, and
• according to additional requirements as stated in
  the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the
  CSIR and the DTI

is specifically used for the maintenance,
development and dissemination of the national
measurement standards.
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History of DTI Funding of NML
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CSIRs International Work

• Rolls-Royce Corporation of Indianapolis has
  recently designated the CSIR as a preferred
  centre of excellence for recalculating the life
  limit of a turbine engine,
• The CSIR has been contracted by Boeing Space
  Communications to render ground support for
  Boeings Delta IV launches,
• The CSIR is participating in two food-related
  European Commission projects and
• The CSIRs collaboration with DaimlerChrysler has
  contributed significantly to further developments
  in support of the use of natural plant fibres,
  both locally and abroad.

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CSIR Involvement in the World Summit on
Sustainable Development

• CSIR has identified the following areas for
  involvement
• in WSSD
• Assisting SA National Departments to meet SA
  obligations (DFA, DEAT, DACST),
• Involvement in the scientific components of the
  Summit,
• Showcasing CSIR at the summit and
• Assisting other stakeholders prepare input for
  the Summit (e.g. SACOB, DANCED).