Awards for Individuals and researchers in five categories

a) Seven awards are made to those individuals who have made outstanding contributions to science, engineering and technology (SET) in South Africa:

• Lifetime Award. Over a decade or more, described as a lifetime, in any field of activity including research and its outputs or through activities in areas other than research and its outputs in any sector or discipline of SET. It includes therefore all other contributions such as managerial, technical, commercial and financial activities that are often necessary for the successful development and diffusion of new or improved products, processes or services.  In this regard the period may be either some portion of a lifetime or the entire lifetime period and this needs to be defined in the nomination.
• Award for research and its outputs over the last ten years in any sector or discipline of SET, and
• Award for contribution through management and related SET activities (last 5 - 10 years). It includes therefore all other contributions such as managerial, technical, commercial and financial activities that are often necessary for the successful development and diffusion of new or improved products, processes or services.

Note: The latter two categories, taken together, are meant to be comprehensive for the time period, and therefore any contribution to SET in the time period should fit into either one or the other.

• TW Kambule NRF Research Awards  for Senior Black Researchers (two Awards, one for a male researcher and one for a female researcher),
• TW Kambule NRF Research Awards  for Distinguished Young researchers (two Awards, one for a male and one for a female researcher)

Last updated: 16 August 2010