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Mindset Cabanga has installed satellite dishes, computers and television sets in 50 schools, bringing multimedia educational resources to children in four provinces.

The Taung fossil site and Mokapane's Valley have been incorporated into South Africa's Cradle of Humankind World Heritage site. Together, the sites have been key to tracing humankind's journey from its beginnings to the present day.

South Africa's America's Cup challenger has unveiled its new, ultra hi-tech hull. The Shosholoza RSA 83 is the first America's Cup class yacht to be designed and built in South Africa - and the first in the world to meet the new Version 5.0 rule of the 2007 America's Cup.

South Africa's top women scientists women were honoured for their role in technological and scientific research at the 2004 South African Awards for Women in Science.

A government initiative called Technology for Women in Business is helping South Africa's female entrepreneurs get access to the applied science and technology they need to catapult their businesses into the big league.

Researchers from around the region have joined forces to create a cooperative, combined astrophysics and space science programme where students from South Africa and Africa can earn Honours and Masters degrees while being mentored and taught by a "dream team" of the country's leading scientists.

The Parliamentary Millennium Project brings together an astonishing collection of ancient maps and artefacts, contrasting Western representations with earlier Eastern ones, and with African forms of social and cultural mapping, to shed new light on the history of "the dark continent".