The following is a selection of links to online information published by the media in 2011.

Africa's eye on the sky
Time, 30 January 2012
A new radio telescope could provide radically new insights into the origins of everything. But it's the place the instrument may be built that's creating the most excitement.

A new radio telescope may catalyse African science
The Economist, 5 November 2011
The idea for the world's most powerful radio telescope, capable of seeing back nearly to the origins of the universe, has been around for some time. Known as the Square Kilometre Array, or SKA — as that was originally planned to be the total collecting area of its thousands of dish-shaped antennae — it was conceived of by an international group of astronomers in the early 1990s.

Reuseskottels in Karoo
Die Burger, 1 November 2011
Kilometers voordat 'n mens by Suid-Afrika se radioteleskoopterrein in die dorre Noord-Kaapse vlaktes aankom, sien jy reeds die 15m hoë skottel-antennas van KAT7, die voorloper van MeerKAT, staan.

SA submits strong bid to host SKA
News24, 16 September 2011
Documents for South Africa's bid to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) have been submitted to the international SKA Siting Group.

Africa could host the world's most powerful telescope
The Guardian UK, 14 September 2011
South Africa battles Australia and New Zealand for vast £1.3bn stargazer Square Kilometre Array project.

Om na die heelal te luister
Die Burger, 3 September 2011
Oor sowat ses maande hoor Suid-Afrika of hy die grootste radioteleskoop tot nog toe in die Karoo sal huisves.

SKA technology 'doesn't exist'
News24, 24 August 2011
The technology to build the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) doesn't exist yet, but it will drive development of technology for South Africa, the project director has said.

Nokia joins partnership for SA's telescope bid
Business Day, 16 August 2011
The Department of Science and Technology has signed a memorandum of understanding with another global corporation — this time with Nokia — in an effort to bolster SA's Square Kilometre Array (SKA) bid.

Q&A: Bernie Fanaroff on South Africa's bid to host the Square Kilometre Array
SciDev.Net, 2 August 2011
Bernie Fanaroff, director of South Africa's Square Kilometre Array project, tells SciDev.Net how hosting the world's most powerful radio telescope would benefit Africa.

Seacom supports SKA
ITWeb, 2 August 2011
Submarine cable company Seacom is the latest entity to support SA's bid to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope.

Seacom inks MoU to provide support for SKA project
Engineering News, 1 August 2011
Submarine cable operator Seacom said on Monday it had entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Square Kilometre Array (SKA) South Africa to provide support for the country’s €1.5-billion SKA radio telescope project.

Podcast: South Africa leading the way with the SKA project in the African scientific renaissance [14.4 MB]
Radio 702 , 27 July 2011
If everything goes according to plan, the Karoo landscape in South Africa will be transformed by 2025 into the center of fascinating and groundbreaking scientific activity, bringing Africa to the fore of scientific discovery, astronomy and the science of the stars.

Q&A: Intel VP on Africa's suitability for SKA telescope
IT News Africa, 27 July 2011
Vice President and General Manager, EMEA at Intel corporation, Christian Morales, discusses his company's involvement in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Africa project, as well as their commitment to the development of science and technology on the continent.

SA SKA bid signs MOU with Intel
News24, 27 July 2011
South Africa's bid to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) has received a boost with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the bid team and Intel.

Intel throws weight behind local SKA bid
TechSmart, 26 July 2011
CPU maker Intel has become the latest multinational to throw its weight behind South Africa's bid to house the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

Technology giant to provide support for SA radio telescope programme
Engineering News, 26 July 2011
Global technology group Intel on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with South Africa’s Department of Science and Technology and SKA South Africa to provide support for South Africa’s Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and MeerKAT radio telescope projects.

Intel backs South African SKA bid
MyBroadband, 26 July 2011
Intel has become the latest technology company to throw its weight behind South Africa’s bid to house the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

Intel throws its weight behind African SKA bid
IT News Africa, 26 July 2011
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Africa project has entered a new exciting phase with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between technology giant Intel and the South African Department of Science and Technology, held on the 26 of July at Sheraton, Pretoria, South Africa.

Why South Africa wants Earth's biggest radio telescope
New Scientist, 19 July 2011
Hosting the planned Square Kilometre Array could help South Africa develop world-class research, says Naledi Pandor, the country's science minister.

Address by the Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor at the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) meeting, Banff, Canada
7 July 2011
I would like to provide an overview of the work that South Africa is doing to confirm its commitment to the SKA project. We have made noteworthy progress on the precursor telescope MeerKAT.

Teleskope wakker leerlus aan
Die Beeld, June 2011
Bykans 300 beurse is reeds sedert 2005 deur die Suid Afrikaanse Square Kilometre Array-projek (SKA) toegestaan.

SA hoor vroeg in 2012 oor teleskoop
Die Burger, June 2011
Die proses en tydlyn wat gevolg sal word om 'n terrein vir die SKA-teleskoop te kies, is pas bekend gemaak.

New labs celebrated
The business of teaching, June 2011
The learning of maths and science in Carnarvon in the Northern Cape is set to improve, with the opening of computer and science laboratories at a local school.

Africa's potential sky-high
Cape Argus, 25 May 2011
World astronomy experts visit Karoo ahead of decision on SKA.

Pandor has high hopes for SA’s radio telescope bid
Cape Argus, 25 May 2011
South Africa and its eight African partners are "vigorously" preparing their bid to host the giant Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project and are confident of success, says Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor.

Support the SKA initiative [MP3]
Radio 702, 8 April 2011
Live read on Radio 702 by John Robbie encouraging South Africans to support South Africa's bid to host the SKA.

Looking back in time with MeerKAT
News24, 6 April 2011
One of the first primary investigators is looking forward to getting first crack at working on the MeerKAT (Karoo Array Telescope) once it's commissioned.

Radio telescopes: Big Astronomy
The Economist, 5 April 2011
April 2nd saw the announcement that Jodrell Bank, a British observatory in the countryside near Liverpool, has been chosen as the headquarters of the €1.5 billion ($2.1 billion) Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a 19-country collaboration that hopes to build the biggest radio telescope ever.

South Africa hopes to play host to a fascinating space project [Afrikaans version]
You/Huisgenoot, 31 March 2011
This week Marina Joubert of the South African SKA (Square Kilometre Array) project tells us more about SA's bid to build a giant radio telescope that will enable us to explore dark matter and energy in the universe.

MeerKAT engineers SA innovation
News24, 29 March 2011
The MeerKAT radio astronomy project has illustrated the engineering prowess of local companies in delivering world class hardware.

Africa preparing to host the world's largest radio astronomy project
Cordis, 24 March 2011
South Africa and Australia are the finalists in the bid to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope. This is an internationally supported project to build the most powerful and technologically advanced research facility in the field of radio astronomy. It will utilise cutting edge technology in electronics, computing, network connectivity, material sciences and engineering.

Africa to bid for world’s largest telescope
Ghana Business News, 9 March 2011
The Minister of Environment Science and Technology, Ms Sherry Ayittey, said on Tuesday that, if Africa won the bid to be announced in the middle of 2012, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Project, which would be one of the largest scientific research facilities in the world, would consolidate Africa as a major hub for astronomy.

South Africa's MeerKAT a centre of international attention
Alpha Galileo, 9 March 2011
Following the successful building and testing of a very innovative prototype dish made from composite materials, the MeerKAT team has built the KAT-7, a seven-dish prototype interferometer array in the Karoo.

The SKA African bid – Participating States
Alpha Galileo, 9 March 2011
South Africa's success in performing Africa's first 'fringe detection' through a joint very long baseline interferometry observation in February 2011 has added significant momentum to the African bid for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

Africa to bid for world’s largest telescope
Ghana News Agency, 8 March 2011
Africa is bidding to host the world’s largest Telescope, that would make the continent a major hub for astronomy in the world.

Square Kilometre Array Cyber Lab launched at Carnarvon
defenceWeb, 7 March 2011
A new Cyber Lab has been launched at Carnarvon High School as part of the Department of Science and Technology’s outreach initiative related to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope project in the Karoo.

Radio telescope set to revolutionise science
Daily Dispatch, 7 March 2011
Rhodes University and many of its former and current staff and students have formed a formidable force in laying the groundwork for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) – a revolutionary radio telescope billed as the "biggest and most sensitive" telescope ever.

SA urged to rally behind SKA project
Eye Witness News, 5 March 2011
Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor on Friday called on South Africans to rally behind the country’s bid to host the Square Kilometre Array Telescope (SKA).

SA well on track in SKA bid
BuaNews, 4 March 2011
Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor says South Africa is well on track to hosting the world's largest telescope, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA).

SKA bid gains momentum with scientific 'breakthroughs'
Engineering News, 4 March 2011
Africa's bid to build and host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope is gaining momentum with significant scientific breakthroughs, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) has said.

Statement by the Minister of Science and Technology, Mrs Naledi Pandor, MP, on the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope bid
The South African Government, 4 March 2011
We believe SKA is an important project for several reasons, we will create a global scientific instrument, we will attract highly accomplished researchers and we will significantly strengthen our existing astronomy science achievements and create a first class hub for astronomy in Africa.

The Square Kilometre Array, a project The Karoo deserves
The Daily Maverick, 3 March 2011
Comparisons between the 2010 World Cup and the Square Kilometre Array project have already begun, and jargon like "The World Cup of Science" will probably stick.

Gas exploration in Karoo will not harm Array project
Times Live, 3 March 2011
Shell SA's exploration for shale gas in the Karoo will not harm the Square Kilometre Array telescope project, the company's chairman Bonang Mohale said.

South Africa's barefoot astronomer
SAinfo, 1 March 2011
Try exploring the nature and evolution of the universe, looking 13.7-billion years back in time, unravelling black holes and watching stars being born.

SKA benefits begin
ITWeb, 28 February 2011
The Northern Cape will have the fastest broadband speed in SA from June, with the arrival of a new 10Gbps cable, says Square Kilometre Array (SKA) SA project director Bernie Fanaroff.

N.Cape learners reap rewards from SKA project
Eye Witness News, 25 February 2011
Learners at Carnarvon High School in the Northern Cape on Friday said that they have become excited about science and technology because of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Project.

SKA on the African horizon
Media Club South Africa, 3 February 2011
With about 3 000 receptors linked together and a total collecting area of 1 000 square metres, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have 50 times the sensitivity and 10 000 times the survey speed of the best current-day radio telescopes.

R15bn telescope to probe the mysteries of the universe
TechCentral, 31 January 2011
The universe still holds many mysteries. The SA engineers and scientists working at bringing the world’s largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), to SA are hoping to solve some of those mysteries and shed light on how the galaxies, stars and planets came into being.

Gravity waves may still wash up in the dry Karoo
Business Day, 31 January 2011
South African scientists are getting ready to join the global hunt for gravity waves — which, though predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916, still elude astronomers almost a century later.

Looking back in time - The Square Kilometre Array
AbouTime, January 2011
Imagine being able to see as far back in time as the Big Bang. Science fiction? Pure fantasy? No, say the scientists involved with what will be the world’s biggest and most powerful telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).