{"id":2500,"date":"2012-10-04T03:44:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T03:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2012-10-04T03:44:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T03:44:02","slug":"hanekom-becomes-minister-of-science-and-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2500","title":{"rendered":"Hanekom becomes Minister of Science and Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2501\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/derek_hanekom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2501\" title=\"derek_hanekom\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/derek_hanekom-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/derek_hanekom-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/derek_hanekom.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derek Hanekom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Newly-appointed Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom will continue to steer South Africa towards a knowledge economy, his department said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Hanekom is familiar with the portfolio of science and technology and he will continue with the drive to steer the country towards a knowledge economy,&#8221; director general Phil Mjwara said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hanekom&#8217;s appointment and that of his predecessor Naledi Pandor as minister of home affairs were announced earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Jacob Zumka said in a statement: &#8220;They have distinguished themselves in their current portfolios and I am confident that they will do exceptionally well in their new responsibilities as well. I wish them all the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The department thanked Pandor for her leadership, her enthusiasm for science and technology and the role she played in South Africa&#8217;s successful bid for the Square Kilometre Array.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hanekom said it had been a privilege working with Pandor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I will build on the foundation laid by my predecessors, including the former minister of science and technology, Mosibudi Mangena,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma resigned as home affairs minister last month to chair the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hanekom will be sworn in as minister at the Union Buildings, in Pretoria. at 10am on Thursday. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly-appointed Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom will continue to steer South Africa towards a knowledge economy, his department said on Wednesday. &#8220;Hanekom is familiar with the portfolio of science and technology and he will continue with the drive to steer the country towards a knowledge economy,&#8221; director general Phil Mjwara said in a statement. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2500\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hanekom becomes Minister of Science and Technology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[362,1575,370,515,12250],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-derek-hanekom","tag-minister-of-science-and-technology","tag-naledi-pandor","tag-nkosazana-dlamini-zuma","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/derek_hanekom.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions\/2503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}