25 Feb Powering Excellence: SAHPRA fuels future Innovators with Tech Increase at SMU Awards
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The South African Well being Merchandise Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) strengthened its function as a champion of scientific development by sponsoring prime achievers on the 2025 Dean’s Excellence Awards hosted by Sefako Makgatho Well being Sciences College. Held on 13 February 2026 in Ga-Rankuwa, north of Pretoria, the ceremony honoured 5 distinctive college students from the College of Science and Innovation with high-performance laptops and equipment in recognition of their tutorial distinction.
The annual awards have fun excellent scholarly achievement and spotlight the facility of strategic partnerships in strengthening analysis, innovation, and expertise growth. In the course of the handover, SAHPRA Studying and Improvement Specialist Zingisa Nodada underscored the regulator’s dedication to nurturing rising scientific expertise. She famous that the gadgets will improve studying, help analysis productiveness, and increase alternatives for college kids to learn from work-integrated studying initiatives.
“By way of this contribution, we’re investing in additional than gadgets; we’re investing in potential. By equipping these high-achieving college students with the instruments they should succeed, SAHPRA is proud to help tutorial excellence, strengthen scientific capability, and empower the following technology of innovators who will form the way forward for well being and analysis in South Africa”, she stated.
Echoing this sentiment, Vice-Dean of the College of Science and Know-how, Professor Sechene Gololo described the sponsorship as transformative, emphasising that it affirms the worth of excellence whereas actively nurturing future scientific leaders. He conveyed the college’s honest appreciation for SAHPRA’s beneficiant contribution, noting that it considerably strengthens their shared dedication to scholar success, tutorial excellence, and capability growth.
The occasion concluded with a renewed pledge of collaboration, demonstrating how focused funding in high-performing college students accelerates expertise development, fuels innovation, and helps safe a stronger future for science and expertise in South Africa.
