{"id":789451,"date":"2024-09-04T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=789451"},"modified":"2024-09-04T08:49:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T06:49:44","slug":"business-talk-dr-rembu-magoba-on-how-the-csir-water-centre-benefits-local-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/789451\/business-talk-dr-rembu-magoba-on-how-the-csir-water-centre-benefits-local-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Dr Rembu Magoba on how the CSIR Water Centre benefits local communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, Dr Rembu Magoba discusses the benefits the CSIR Water Centre brings to local communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Magoba is the Manager of the CSIR Water Centre and boasts over 20 years of experience in water research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before joining the CSIR, he worked as a Freshwater Ecologist for Southern Waters Ecological Research and Consulting, and as the Head of Research and Development for the City of Cape Town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his current position, Magoba champions the development of fit-for-purpose technologies and solutions to address South Africa\u2019s biggest water challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Magoba holds an Honours degree in Biological Science from the University of Venda for Science and Technology, a Masters degree in Ecological Assessment from Stellenbosch University, and a PhD in Agricultural Entomology from Stellenbosch University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The interview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, Magoba discusses the CSIR Water Centre and its top strategic objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Magoba outlines the unique resources, capabilities, and technologies the CSIR Water Centre offers, and explains how the centre works with multiple organisations to build industry-defining services and solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then discusses the initiatives the CSIR Water Centre is currently working on, as well as the organisation\u2019s key research focus areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Magoba concludes the interview by detailing how new clients and collaborators can work with the CSIR Water Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the interview with Rembu Magoba below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0oLKQchcnwY?si=E4zlLcpwjMCGu73d\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Rembu Magoba boasts over 20 years of experience in water research and is dedicated to creating fit-for-purpose solutions to address South Africa\u2019s biggest water challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":789452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[15508,17483,4859],"class_list":["post-789451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-businesstalk","tag-council-for-scientific-and-industrial-research-csir","tag-csir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789456,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789451\/revisions\/789456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}