Question NW934 to the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation
04 April 2022 - NW934
Boshoff, Dr WJ to ask the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation
What (a) total amount of the parliamentary grant money has been allocated to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research annually for the past four decades and (b) portion of the total amount in parliamentary grant money was allocated towards defined water programmes every decade?
Reply:
Answering these questions would require extensive research, as they relate to a period spanning four decades. This is compounded by the unreliability of some of the information, which relates to activities undertaken during the apartheid era. For example, some of the projects that were undertaken during the apartheid era were secret projects that were not properly or fully recorded. Therefore, the information required to answer the questions is not available.