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10 February 2012
   
 
 
Article by: Sapa
 
 
 

South Africa's need for innovation is dire, said Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor on Friday.

"I cannot understand a how a country as endowed as ours... why we should be behind Tunisia in innovation," she told a conference on intellectual property rights in Johannesburg.

Pandor said the government was taking steps to protect the intellectual property of both academics and indigenous knowledge.

She called for the manufacture of antiretrovirals (ARVs) to be done locally.

"Aids is our pandemic. Why are we not responding to it here. Why are we not making ARVs here?"

 

Edited by: Sapa
 
 
 
 
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Naledi Pandor (Picture by: Duane Daws)
 
Naledi Pandor (Picture by: Duane Daws)
 
 
 
 
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