I move without notice:
That the House -
1) notes that South Africa's National Science Festival will lift off in Grahamstown, on 12 March 2014 and run until 18 March 2014;
2) further notes that Sci-fest Africa remains the largest festival of its kind on the African continent, welcoming over 65 000 visitors of all ages to Grahamstown in 2013;
3) acknowledges that the festival will also host three parallel festivals during Sci-fest Africa 2014, namely the iRhini Township Festival, Sci-kids and Sci-fest Africa at Nelson Mandela Bay Science Centre, Uitenhage;
4) further acknowledges that this year's theme is Into the space!, and the festival will offer visitors over 500 events that will explore spaces big and small, such as: anatomy and the brain, astronomy, the atmosphere, architecture, biotechnology, the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Space Agency, geographical regions, nanotechnology, psychology, underground and underwater exploration, space sciences, the SKA, the universe, and any other space you can think of; and
5) calls on all those who are interested to visit and support the science festival.
Agreed to.