About Us
About Quest Online
Focus and scope
Quest: Science for South Africa is a full-colour, quarterly, popular science magazine aimed specifically at the youth and the general public who have an interest in the sciences. It aims to present the country’s (South Africa’s) foremost scientific work in an accessible form and can be used to support curricula work at various levels and institutions.
Quest is distributed to public high schools with science departments, universities, libraries, science centres, government departments, parliamentary committees, embassies, NGOs, TVETs and resource centres.
Quest is also available at selected national science events, science Olympiads, DST events and Focus weeks and at various communal functions.
Quest is published on a quarterly basis, and each issue has a theme, which is generally decided six months in advance.
Quest: Science for South Africa is managed, hosted and published as an open access (free) magazine, by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).
Editorial Team
(Executive Officer, ASSAf) (Chair)
(Editor-in-Chief, South African Journal of Science)
(Professor of Microbiology and Director at CMEG Laboratory, University of Pretoria)
(Associate Professor of Digital Transformation, University of South Africa)
(Specialist Scientist, Medical Research Council)
(Director, Scholarly Publishing Programme, ASSAf)
(Professor of Physics, University of the Free State)
(Associate Professor of Archaelogy, Wits University)
(Professor of Mathematics, UKZN and Université Paris)
(Professor of Pharmaceutics, Dept of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Wits)
(Professor and HoD of Physics, UNIVEN)
Editor
Writer & Sci-Tech Communication Specialist
BA Soc.Sci. | BPhil. Hons. Journ. | MA Journalism | PhD (Science Journalism)
Phone: +27 82 388 0626
@fanievanrooyen
