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No nationalisation, says ANC to UK business | p11
An artist’s impression of the Square Kilometre Array dishes. Photo: SKA Organisation/TDP/DRAO/Swinburne Astronomy Productions
SA WINS LION’S SHARE OF SUPER-TELESCOPE
After a long wait to find out who will host the world’s largest telescope, both South Africa and Australia have been chosen - with SA hosting the biggest portion
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by NICOLE HOLGATE he Square Kilometre Array radio telescope’s fate was finally decided this weekend, with the majority of the transmitters being sited in South Africa, to the joy of the scientists leading the South African bid. “I am ecstatic; I am happy for
our scientists, our country and for Africa. We have done it!” Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor told a media briefing in Pretoria. “It would have been good if we got all of it, but getting three quarters is good enough.” Representatives from Canada, China, Italy the UK and the
Netherlands decided the rights for the $2.4 million project on Saturday. The main bidders, Australia, with a contribution of around $55 million by New Zealand, and South Africa, will each have a share, but with the highest frequency transmitters in South Africa.
“After nine years of work by the South African and Australian SKA site bid teams, the independent SKA Site Advisory Committee, composed of world-renowned experts, carried out an objective technical and scientific assessment of the sites in South Africa and ...continued on page 3
Treasurer General Mathews Phosa has once again assured international business that the ANC has no policy on nationalisation. He was speaking at the Progressive Business Forum in London.
African Utopia takes over the Southbank| p7 In July 2012, as part of the Festival of the World, the Southbank Centre will host a series of events under the banner ‘Africa Utopia’. Africa will be represented up and down the river as the capital celebrates its multiculturalism alongside the Olympics.
Fanie Os Oppie Jas: Oor Facebook vir baba’s | p9 ’n Vriend van my, gooi nou die dag die volgende irritasiebelaaide status update op Facebook: “wonder of daar ’n manier is om babafoto’s op FB te blok?”