By Moipone Malefane
Science and Technology Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane is passionate about bringing more women into the science and technology space.
She wants to see them serving on the boards as well being the CEOs in the entities that fall under her department.
Her interest is also to ensure funding is unlocked in order for them to study science and technology – making them ready for the fourth industrial revolution.
Kubayi-Ngubane, in an exclusive interview with Inside Politics, said she was the first to admit that almost all senior positions in her department were occupied by men, but she was slowly changing that.
“I cannot proudly say we have done it [having women in senior positions], this is my daily work because we have contracts with people in these strategic positions but where there are vacancies, we look for qualified women.”
She said that so far on-board appointments at
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