Hon Speaker, I move without notice:
That the House -
1) notes that the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) team comprising of Tracy Cheetham, the General Manager of Infrastructure and Site Operations, Kim De Boer, the General Manager of People Support and Development, Communications and Project Secretariat, Willem Esterhuyse, the MeerKAT Project Manager, Dr Bernard (Bernie) Fanaroff, the Project Director and Dr Adrian Tiplady, the SKA Site Bid Manager were presented with the NSTF-BHP Billiton Award for an Individual or Team for outstanding contribution to science, engineering, technology and innovation through management and related activities over the past 5 to 10 years;
2) recognises these remarkable individuals' contributions to the SKA project and their securing South Africa's role as a major partner in the project;
3) further notes the potential that the SKA project has to advance and promote South Africa's contribution to humanity's advancement through science and technology;
4) further recognises the importance of science and technology in the quest to uplift and empower our people and to build a knowledge- based economy on the African continent; and
5) congratulates the entire SKA team on this prestigious award and wish them well in taking the SKA project forward.
Agreed to.