News Minister Blade Nzimande: Plans for reopening of Post School Education and Training Institutions amid Coronavirus Covid-19 - 18 Jan 2021 CATEGORY: Media and COVID-19 AUTHOR: DST.gov.za Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation statement on plans for the reopening of Post School Education and Training Institutions and the contribution of science and innovation in the fight against Covid-19 On our science and innovation interventions we continue to work with our sister Department of Health, the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC); Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF); KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP); our entities the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR); Human Science Research Council (HSRC) and National Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities (NIHSS); Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) and the Biovac Institute, pharmaceutical company partly owned by government.