The South African manufacturing sector is in a de-industrialisation phase with the sector's contribution to gross domestic product dropping from 24% in the early 1980s to 13. 7% in 2015. The number of people employed in the sector has dropped by more than 25% over the same period.

Biotechnology Company developing and manufacturing modern biotechnology products for human pharmaceutical use

Established in 2012, Public Health Consultancy is a public health consulting firm based in South Africa committed to improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities through building strong partnerships with governments, healthcare agencies, research institutions and non-governmental organisations. We are a team of highly qualified African public health professionals with over 40 years of combined experience in the health sector both public and private. We offer a wide range of consulting services from research to programme management including monitoring and evaluation and we take pride in the quality of our work and in our commitment to our clients.

At PRA Health Sciences, providing innovative solutions for our clients is what we do. Side-by-side with our clients, we strive to move drug discovery forward, helping them to develop life-saving and life-improving drugs. PRA has more than 10, 000 employees working in 80 + countries providing comprehensive clinical development services across all phases. From full service clinical development to the...

The CSIR Implementation Unit supports government and industry by taking many of the technologies and processes developed in the CSIR (and elsewhere) to create impact in the broader South Africa. These initiatives aim to stimulate industrial development and economic growth, create jobs, and provide assistance to government to achieve its mandated responsibilities. The unit has a sound track record of taking programmes from policy to strategy and to implementation.

The mandate which has been entrusted to the WRC includes: *Promoting co-ordination, co-operation and communication in the area of water research and development *Establishing water research needs and priorities *Stimulating and funding water research according to priority *Promoting effective transfer of information and technology *Enhancing knowledge and capacity-building within the water sector.