{"id":34619,"date":"2026-05-16T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34619"},"modified":"2026-05-16T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:00:08","slug":"sa-minister-calls-for-african-led-science-innovation-agenda","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-minister-calls-for-african-led-science-innovation-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Minister calls for African-led science,\u00a0\u00a0innovation agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Blade Nzimande, says the African continent must change the way it engages with itself and the rest of the world when it comes to science, technology and innovation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Nzimande was delivering his department\u2019s budget vote in Parliament.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">He has tabled a budget of more than R10 billion ($600 million)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Nzimande says it will be spent to advance science, technology and innovation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u201cAfrica must change the way it engages with itself and the rest of the world. One of the critical tasks in this respect is the building of what we call a sovereign research and development agenda. By this we mean research and development agenda that is designed, funded and led by Africans. To make this call is not to reject international funding and partnership funding but to advocate for sovereign support that is underpinned by equity and fairness and doesn\u2019t replace domestic and continental investment and innovation in future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u2014SABC\u2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20308,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-34619","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Nzimande was delivering his department\u2019s budget vote in Parliament.","published_date":"","news_description":"Nzimande was delivering his department\u2019s budget vote in Parliament.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34620,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34619\/revisions\/34620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}