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Space programmes aside, South Africa’s 2023-24 science budget signals more austerity ahead
A bumper year for science, but with limited benefits across the research and innovation landscape as a whole. That’s the outlook presented in South Africa’s 2023-24 science budget vote and debate held on 23 May.
The Department of Science and Innovation will receive 10.9 billion rand (US$570 million), a significant increase from its R9.1bn allocation in 2022-23. However, most of this increase is for space science, specifically for the country’s Space Infrastructure Hub and the Square Kilometre Array.
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