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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

PRIORITISED IN RICHARDS BAY

Enclosed by a number of manufacturing industries, the city of Richards to expert so that all ages can successfully participate in a range of:
Bay is gradually developing to become one of the major production • Electricity
capitals in the country and beyond, and it is a fast-growing industrial hub • DNA Detectives
that has been able to maintain its ecological diversity, complemented • Cloning
by a hive of commercial activities and miscellaneous goods produced • Light (Reflection and Absorbance)
daily and exported abroad by means of sea, rail and road transport. • Solar System
• Matter and Materials (RBM)
As a prospect to create employment opportunities, the city recognises
the significance of science and technology as a means to stimulate
technological awareness, generate innovation and expose individuals
to the experimental practices of technology and research.

Identifying the need was one of Richards Bay’s higher education As a prospect to create employment
institutions, University of Zululand, based in the core of the rural
KwaDlangezwa. The University of Zululand’s physics department opportunities, the city recognises the
applied to the University authorities for permission to open a Science signifi cance of science and technology
Centre (“Exploratorium”) in the Faculty of Science, at the end of
1982. Permission was granted and work begun early in 1983, with a as a means to stimulate technological
commended assistance from Old Mutual.
awareness, generate innovation and

Since the concept was approved, the facility has stretched out to expose individuals to the experimental
many, offering a cluster of technological innovations and educational
experimentations, such as workshops where visitors perform a practices of technology and research.”
comprehensive list of activities, varying in its difficulty from novice

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