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18 May 2021 | How local initiative is taming sexual abuse in Abuja communities
Last Friday, advocates against child and sexual abuse in Nigeria commemorated the first year, a community-based-approach to curb such menaces took off...
18 May 2021 | Low levels of financial literacy linked to anxiety
New research shows that financial stress and anxiety is tied to low levels of financial literacy. Building on data from the US National Financial Capa...
18 May 2021 | National Treasury partners with HSRC to build analytical capabilities within metros
The National Treasury has launched eight metro reports containing spatialised economic data drawn from anonymised administrative tax data. South Afri...
18 May 2021 | National Youth Development Agency 2021/22 Annual Performance Plan
The DTIC was likely to meet its target of 8 000 jobs through the incentive for the business processing outsourcing sector. Despite the Covid-19 pandem...
4 May 2021 | Quibbling Over Cruelties: Human Rights Watch, Israel and Apartheid
Former Justice of the South African Constitutional Court Richard Goldstone signalled that point in chastising the misuse of the term. This is despite ...
4 May 2021 | Social housing is vital - Opportunists are trying to derail it
A 2018 paper from Andreas Scheba and Ivan Turok for the Human Sciences Research Council paints a terrible picture: “According to the review unde...
20 Apr 2021 | This week in civil society: Planning for the restoration of Earth
This week in civil society: Planning for the restoration of Earth, a sustainable grant system and the end of South Africa’s ‘book famine&r...
19 Apr 2021 | Publishing should be a big deal - for the right reasons
Research publication when I was a student in the late 1960s and early 1970s was a big deal. Once accepted, an article could stack for five years befor...
19 Apr 2021 | University on a mission to help people change their lives
For years, students from the University of Pretoria (UP) in South Africa were tormented by robberies that occurred near a dumpsite situated right behi...
7 Apr 2021 | Making sure it is possible with science, technology and innovation at the new Department of Science and Innovation
With its name changed from the Department of Science and Technology to the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), there is greater emphasis on th...