South African Canegrowers (SACG)
The mission of SA CANEGROWERS is to play a leading role in growing sugarcane and diverse production opportunities for cane growers, through innovation, research, specialised services and products.
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Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA)
SARIMA is a membership organisation of Research and Innovation Management practitioners within the SADC region.
Continue reading →Sugar Milling Research Institute NPC (SMRI)
The Sugar Milling Research Institute NPC (SMRI) is the central scientific organisation involved in research work and technical services for the southern African sugarcane processing industry, the purpose being to enable the sustainability of the industry in both the short and long term. The institute was founded in 1949 and is located on the Howard College campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), in the heart of the sugar belt of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Continue reading →Tomato Producers Organisation (TPO)
The TPO as a voluntary producers’ organisation aspires to act as a mouthpiece for the producers of fresh tomatoes in South Africa.
Continue reading →Young Professionals Council (YPC)
The Young Professionals Council of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM-YPC) is constituted to develop and promote initiatives and industry awareness of the members of the Institute who are 35 years and younger and to provide an alternative perspective to Council (SAIMM) to consider in its decision-making.
Continue reading →Coaltech Research Association (Coaltech)
Coaltech is the longest running collaborative program in the mining industry.
Established as a non-profit organisation to address the research needs of the South Africa Coal Industry, Coaltech’s main purpose is the application of research findings and development of technology from these findings to ensure the industry remains competitive, sustainable, and safe.
Continue reading →Land Rehabilitation Society of Southern Africa (LaRSSA)
As a group of qualified, experienced and enthusiastic land rehabilitation specialists, LaRSSA identified an opportunity to improve, facilitate, support, grow, consolidate, accelerate, evaluate, and communicate land rehabilitation stories. The Land Rehabilitation Society has become the way to channel this energy.
LaRSSA was founded on the 8th of August 2012 and publicly inaugurated and constituted on the 15th November 2012. LaRSSA is a non-profit organization with a current membership of 250 and growing rapidly. LaRSSA has a potential member database of more than 2500.
Southern African Institute for Management Scientists (SAIMS)
The role of SAIMS is to initiate and facilitate the collection and process of relevant information in the field of Management, and to make this information available to interested stakeholders by means of, amongst others, publications, an annual conference and contact between local and international Management Scientists in Southern Africa and abroad.
Continue reading →Surgical Research Society of South Africa (SRSSA)
The main objective of the Surgical Research Society of SA is to encourage and facilitate research in Southern Africa. Membership includes representatives from the medical schools in South Africa and those in Botswana Zambia Zimbabwe.
The objective of the SRSSA, as defined in the constitution, is “to provide for the interchange of information about research work related to surgery”. In its present form the society provides a platform to network and collaborate in research four countries in southern Africa.
Continue reading →Urban Real Estate Research Unit (URERU)
The current and projected growth in African cities creates significant opportunities for real estate on the continent but also presents serious challenges in the form of infrastructure deficits, urban management and the financial viability of cities in general. While many of these opportunities and challenges are experienced elsewhere in the world, the nature and scale of them are unique to South Africa and the rest of the continent. For this reason, the main aim of the Research Unit is to provide a unique inter-disciplinary research platform for academia that promotes the identification of issues and seeks solutions to urban real estate investment, finance, economics and management problems in Africa.
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