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Space News:
- 8 December 2010: Pandor to launch the South African National Space Agency
The South African Cabinet has announced the inaugural board of the South African National Space Agency (SANSA). They will serve with effect June 1 2010 until May 31 2014.
The board is:
The board is:
* Mr M Magugumela (Chairman)
* Mr L Annamalai
* Dr EJO Gavin
* Mr VC Gore
* Ms J Lawrence
* Mr P Maine
* Capt MD Mamashela
* Dr LA McKinell
* Ms L Mogudi
* Mr T Ratsheko
* Dr RJ Scholes
* Ms R Sekese
* Ms VB Titi
* Mr M Zondi
The appointments come about seven months after the Department of Science and Technology (DST) in consultation with the National Assembly's Portfolio Committee on Science and Technology finalised a shortlist of candidates.
The board will now oversee the agency, monitor research priorities and programmes, and carry out the agency's strategy, is made up of representatives from government services, civil society and the military. Chairman Maurice Magugumela is from the National Nuclear Regulator. Other government representatives are Dr Robert Scholes from the CSIR; Rosey Sekese, Deputy Director General (DDG) for ICT infrastructure at the Department of Communications, and Brenda Titi, a DDG at the Department of Agriculture, Captain Mpho Mamashela of the Air Traffic Navigation Service (an agency of the Department of Transport) and Rhodes University physicist Dr Lee-Anne McKinnell.
Not given the Cabinet nod are short-listees Nomfuneko Majaja, Head of 2010 Operations at SA Airways; Francois Anderson of the CSIR and Bennett Kwanele Siziba, the latter a counter-intelligence, weapons of mass destruction counter-proliferation expert with the National Intelligence Agency and Magalies Water CEO Jacqueline Simangele Sekgobela.
Civil society representatives include EDI Holdings executive manager Leeandran Annamalai, Vincent Gore, Business Connexion's Joy-Marie Lawrence (an expert on space and satellite law), Tsheko Ratseheko and Sage Wise MD Louisa Mogudi. Not on the board is EVI Capital Partners CEO Zola Fihlani, Potlaki Maine, consultant Themba Buthelezi, financial consultant Carla Sharp and retired engineering professor Gideon de Wet.
The agency was created early last year, when then-President Kgalema Motlanthe signed the National Space Agency Act into law. Its mandate is to promote the peaceful use of space, foster research in space science and communications navigation, and promote international co-operation in space-related activities.
