Editors’ Forum, DA voice support for suspended scientist

THE Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) yesterday denied gagging suspended researcher Anthony Turton. CSIR head Sibusiso Sibisi said the researcher had been suspended because of comments he had made to the media. Turton was suspended last week after the CSIR stopped him delivering an address on South Africas water quality at a conference. Sibisi said the council noted Turton had extended an olive branch, and it had been taken in good faith. However, the CSIR would not allow...