Award for Winetech
2007-07-19
Ten individuals and three organisations were honoured for their outstanding contributions towards scientific engineering and technological development at the ninth awards gala dinner of the National Science and Technology Forum.
Winners were selected from 70 nominations.The Minister of Science and Technology, Mosibudi Mangena, presented an award to Jan Booysen, executive manager of Winetech, on behalf of the NSTF.
Dr Sibusiso Sibisi, president and CEO of the CSIR, sponsors the category “Best corporate organisation over the last ten years”.
Winetech was established as a vehicle for facilitating and financing research in the wine industry and transferring resultant technology to its stakeholders. It is one of the business units of the SA Wine Council, the representative body of the South African wine industry.
The wine industry funds Winetech by means of a statutory research and development levy paid by producers.
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