Question NW935 to the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation
04 April 2022 - NW935
Boshoff, Dr WJ to ask the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation
What was the contribution of the Water Research Commission to the successful outcome of each of the novel technologies and processes developed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research over the past four decades?
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.