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It was established on 1 April 1999 as an autonomous statutory body in accordance with the National Research Foundation Act.Dr Fulufhelo Nelwamondo has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the National Research Foundation of South Africa with effect from 1 April 2021.
[3] [10] By mid-2011, only 92 research chairs had been established, [2] though they accounted for an outsized proportion of the country's total research output – comprising 1.5 per cent of all active researchers in South Africa, they produced 4.5 per cent of national research outputs. [11] By 2015, the number of research chairs had grown to ...
At the 2009/10 National Science and Technology Forum awards, he was awarded the National Research Foundation–sponsored TW Kambule award for a distinguished black male researcher over the last 2-5 years. [14] Nelwamondo featured in the Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans in 2008 [15], 2010 [16] and 2012. [17]
The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) is the national centre for optical and infrared astronomy in South Africa. It was established in 1972. The observatory is run by the National Research Foundation of South Africa. The facility's function is to conduct research in astronomy and astrophysics.
The Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) is a radio astronomy observatory, located in a natural bowl of hills at Hartebeesthoek just south of the Magaliesberg mountain range, and about 50 km west of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. It is a National Research Facility run by South Africa's National Research Foundation.
The nodes also provide research support to collaborators. [10] Nodes are geographically distributed across South Africa to provide good coverage of biomes or subsets thereof. At the start of 2011 the respective nodes were: SAEON Ndlovu Node at Phalaborwa, hosted by the South African National Parks. The node focuses on the Savanna Biome.
Loyiso Nongxa is a South African mathematician, the current chairperson of the National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF) and a former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits). [2]
National Research Foundation (United Arab Emirates), a foundation to promote research activity in the United Arab Emirates National Research Foundation (South Africa) , the intermediary agency between the Government of South Africa and South Africa's research institutions