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SA engineer scoops continental award

INNOVATION

South Africa’s Edmund Wessels was named co-winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s 2023 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for his FlexiGyn gynaecological examination project.

The ceremony was held in Accra, Ghana,

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