The state of science in South Africa
Sixty-one years ago, South Africa's linkurl:Council for Scientific and Industrial Research;https://www.csir.co.za/plsql/ptl0002/ptl0002_pge001_home was established by a parliamentary decree that specifically required it to undertake research that improves the linkurl:wellbeing;https://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/23120/ of the country's people. Given this, I wasn't really surprised, on visiting CSIR's sprawling campus on the outskirts of the city of Pretoria, to find biosciences researchers
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