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Table 9: SAMRC’s B-BBEE Compliance Code of Good Practice

RESPONSE
CRITERIA (YES/NO) DISCUSSION
Determining qualification criteria for the No Not applicable
issuing of licences, concessions or other
authorisations in respect of economic
activity in terms of any law?
Developing and implementing a Yes SAMRC complies with the Preferential Procurement
preferential procurement policy? Regulations of 2022
Determining qualification criteria for the No Not applicable
sale of state-owned enterprises?
Developing criteria for entering into No Any Public Private Partnerships (PPP) that SAMRC may enter
partnerships with the private sector? into will be in line with the Treasury Regulations. However,
SAMRC receives some funding from the private sector, and
these funds do not constitute PPP
Determining criteria for the awarding No However, two of the indicators of Programme 4 address
of incentives, grants and investment the issue of capacitating black/historically disadvantaged
schemes in support of Broad Based individuals
Black Economic Empowerment?

The SAMRC is committed to comply with the B-BBEE Act and transformational agenda.

9.3.21 SAMRC Intramural and Extramural universities in South Africa) with the primary goal
research units, and Platforms of generating new knowledge but also to build
The SAMRC intramural units are largely based research capacity in the discipline of health sciences.
at SAMRC campuses and comprise of scientists The extramural units are built on scientific excellence
directly employed by the organisation. The scope and leadership of an internationally recognised
of these intramural research units includes research researcher and his/her research team and must
and innovation into tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and contribute to developing the next generation of
other infectious diseases, cardiovascular and non- research leaders for the country. The funding for
communicable diseases, gender and health, and SAMRC extramural research units represents a
alcohol, mental health and other substances. Other secure, discretionary, financial incentive which is
units focus on cross-cutting research methodologies approved in five-year cycles up to a maximum of
such as the Burden of Disease Research Unit, fifteen years. Research Centres comprise of scientists
Biostatistics research unit and Cochrane South based at tertiary institutions who primarily conduct
Africa, the only designated Cochrane centre outside research on behalf of the SAMRC.
of the UK. The SAMRC extramural research units
are established within research institutions (mainly

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