Source: https://www.tut.ac.za/latest-news/874-until-policy-and-science-embrace-and-dance-its-not-yet-uhuru

According to scholars Sven Grimm et al, ‘science and policymaking should be an excellent match’. But in real-life situations, the relationship is uneasy. Were the relationship between Science and Policy not so important to our nation, we might have been tempted to abandon the search for a more conducive interface between the two.

A surge of positivity pumped through my veins and arteries as I sat in the august company of scholars, young and older, on the occasion of the inauguration of new members of the Academy of Science of South Africa and the South African Young Academy of Science (Sayas), on 30 October 2025.