Hon Deputy Speaker, I move without notice:
That the House -
1) notes that two African women have become the first recipients of the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for outstanding contributions and leadership in computer science and that to qualify for the award candidates must be female students at a university in Europe, the Middle East or Africa, and must be studying computer science, computer engineering, informatics or a related field;
2) further notes that South Africa's Sinini Ncube, a masters student at Rhodes University and Kenyan born Shikoh Gitau, a doctoral candidate at the University of Cape Town (UCT), have both won the scholarship and that each will receive a cash prize of R67 000 and an opportunity to visit Google's engineering facility in Zurich;
3) recognises that Ncube and Gitau are the first sub-Saharan students to receive the award, which is open to applicants from Europe, the Middle East and, for the first time, Africa - provided they are women; and
4) congratulates these two women on their achievement and for showing the world that the African continent can compete successfully internationally in the field of computer science, computer engineering and informatics.
Agreed to.