Partners in
Development
The success of Scientific Roets cannot be ascribed only to the
organisation itself, but to the many partners, sub-contractors
and friends who provide essential sources of knowledge and
expertise in our daily operations.
These include:
- Mr Njabulo Maseko, a lawyer
(legal advisory services especially related to innovative
institutional development). Njabulo is an independent
Non-Executive Director of Scientific Roets (PTY) Ltd and a
Trustee of the Scientific Roets Employee’s Trust.
- Mrs Xoliswa Nodada of Weza
Social Development Services (social facilitation). Xoliswa is
an independent Non-Executive Director of Scientific Roets
(PTY) Ltd and a Trustee of the Scientific Roets Employee’s
Trust.
- Dr Peter Plumstead, a poultry
specialist who contributes his vast amount of experience and
knowledge to the KwaXolo Chicken Project, the Pietermaritzburg
Alternative Hatchery Project and the Kokstad
Point-of-Lay-Pullet Project.
- Justin van Fleet of Advance
Associates (USA) and Scientific Roets (PTY) Ltd collaborate on
Rural Education and Intellectual Property Rights innovations
and are planning several new collaborations in the future (www.theadvanceassociates.com).
- Dr Zenete França of Zenete
França and Associates (ZFA), based in Portugal, draws together
a network of specialists from Africa (including Dr Merida
Roets), Latin America and Asia who have worked together on
agricultural learning and capacity building programs in
developing countries for the past two decades.
- Dr Simba Sibanda of Troparg,
Zimbabwe, has assisted Scientific Roets (PTY) Ltd in its own
Strategic Planning and has been a fellow contributor to the
“Agricultural Research Management for Innovation” courses
presented at ISNAR-IFPRI in Ethiopia (www.troparg.com).
Dr Sibanda and Scientific Roets (PTY) Ltd have worked in
partnership on several national and international tenders.
- Other alliances are project
specific, such as:
- The “Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Resources”
research project in collaboration with the University of
Pretoria, CIRAD (French), Western Cape Dept. of Agriculture,
Namibian Partners, and Justin van Fleet of Advance Associates
(USA)
- Working as partner with Ms. Terry Myburgh of Sombhulula
Management Services CC to develop the Makana Milk Goat Project
in Grahamstown (www.makanagoatvillage.org.za)
- Working with SEDA-NW, Invest NW, the Bophirima District
Municipality and others to re-design and develop the red meat
industry of the Bophirima District of the North West Province (Bophirima
Red Meat Beneficiation Project – Scientific Roets)
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