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Media Advisory To: ALL Media The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will participate in the 2026 Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) Expo, taking place from 16 to 20 September 2026 at Air Force Base Waterkloof in Pretoria. AAD is Africa’s premier aerospace and defence exhibition, combining a trade exhibition with an air show to showcase air, land and sea technologies.

Senior cloud and infrastructure engineer at the CSIR, Otshepeng Mabuse, participated in the 20th Public Sector Innovation Conference, which was held at Bela-Bela in Limpopo, from 19 to 21 August 2026. As our government continues to embrace the need for digital transformation, secure, resilient and locally maintained digital infrastructure is getting more important than ever. Otshepeng highlighted that her central idea was that every digital-government policy must eventually meet a machine.

Officials say CSIR-developed dashboard helps direct traffic and rapid response CSIR researchers developed a dashboard and mapping tool to assist Limpopo’s Department of Transport and Community Safety (DTCS) with data-driven service delivery. The tool, now handed over to the province, gives officials a bird's-eye view of road incidents like crashes, pedestrian-related accidents, taxi transport patterns and speeding. A heatmap of all road incidents in Limpopo reported during 2025.

Media Advisory To: ALL Media The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will host a roundtable webinar on 16 September 2026 to showcase locally developed artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies that have the potential to address key challenges in South Africa’s education system.

Webinar details: Host: The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Speakers: CSIR AI and cybersecurity experts Dr Jabu Mtsweni, Avi Moodley, Ilana Wilken, Privolin Naidoo and Sandile Khumalo Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2026 Time: 11:00 – 13:00 South African Standard Time Registration link: Leveraging natural language processing to address national educational challenges webinar

On Thursday, 17 September 2026, the Aerospace Industry Support Initiative (AISI) will mark 20 years of supporting South Africa’s aerospace, defence, marine and advanced manufacturing industries during the Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) 2026 Exhibition. AISI was established in 2006 as a strategic initiative of the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic) to strengthen the competitiveness, sustainability and growth of South Africa’s aerospace and defence industry.

Media Advisory To: ALL Media Thursday,03 September 2026 The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is honoured to announce that South Africa will host the 8th RD20 (Research and Development 20 for Clean Energy Technologies) Conference in 2026, marking the first time the global conference will be held on the African continent.

Pretoria, South Africa, 31 August 2026 – The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the German Development Bank (KfW) have signed a grant agreement to strengthen biomanufacturing capabilities in southern Africa through the establishment of the Southern African Biomanufacturing Training Hub. The grant is provided by the European Union as part of its Global Gateway flagship project: “Manufacturing and Access to Vaccines, Medicines and Health Technologies”.

Media advisory Minister Nzimande hosts the Minister of Finance, Mr Enoch Godongwana for a strategic visit to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria.

Media advisory Minister Nzimande to host the Minister of Finance, Mr Enoch Godongwana for a strategic visit to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria.