Academy of Science South Africa 2005/6 Annual Report

ASSAfA short history of how the ASSAf came to beThe cardinal emphasis in the Academy would thus be on service as well as on recognition or reward forpast achievements, on the solution of problems through scientific analysis rather than the stimulationof individual scientific disciplines, and on the promotion of scientific thinking and activity in the broadrather than the narrow sense.The Academy of Science, as a premier, non-governmental, scientific body, should be in a particularfavourable position to act as a link with international scientific unions and related organisation. It shouldalso be to establish fruitful links with academies (or equivalents) that exists in other countries. In Africa,especially, it should interact with equivalent academies, and form regional or continental organisationwith common purposes and objectives.The Academy of Science of South Africa is constituted to ensure thatleading scientists, acting in concert and across disciplines can promotethe advancement of the application of Science to the problems andchallenges facing South Africa90 Promoting Excellence in Science for Society