Keitumetse Molamu, head of Engineering and Technology Development at the NRF-SARAO, says that young South Africans must see opportunity where global challenges intersect with local realities.
Scientists in South Africa are making strides in transforming lives through scientific projects that leave a lasting social and economic impact.
Among those driving the change is Keitumetse Molamu, head of Engineering and Technology Development at the NRF-SARAO, which is the National Research Foundation (NRF), which manages the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO).
SARAO is a South African national facility responsible for all local radio astronomy research, development, and facilities, including the MeerKAT Radio Telescope and South Africa’s participation in the global Square Kilometre Array (SKA).
The SKA is an international effort to build the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope (not a single telescope, but an array of telescopes that will be spread across vast distances to achieve its massive scale and sensitivity) to help better understand the history of the universe. It will be the largest radio telescope in the world when completed, with a significant part of it hosted in South Africa, along with a component in Australia.
