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26 Jul 2021 | Understanding context is key to advancing student success
In June 2021 we published an article in the Special COVID-19 issue of the Journal of Student Affairs in Africa based on our research with student affa...
26 Jul 2021 | Your employees matter - Steps to fight pandemic fatigue
As we move past the half year mark for 2021, it is a time of reflection as we realise how far the world has come in our efforts to combat the coronavi...
23 Jul 2021 | IEC to make final decision on whether elections will go ahead
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) will on Friday make a final decision on whether the October Local government Elections will take place or n...
23 Jul 2021 | SA COVID-19 and Vaccine Social Listening Report 19 July 2021, Report 10
This is a weekly report of COVID & vaccine concerns, rumours and misinformation in SA prepared by the RCCE Social Listening (see the note on metho...
23 Jul 2021 | Since 1994, SA has been a mixed bag of presidents and patchy institution-building
Richard Calland and Mabel Dzinouya Sithole unpack their insights into the presidential leadership of South Africa over the past 25 years, and track th...
23 Jul 2021 | Since 1994, SA has been a mixed bag of presidents and patchy institution-building
Richard Calland and Mabel Dzinouya Sithole The coronavirus pandemic has placed the leadership of presidents and prime ministers across the world unde...
19 Jul 2021 | Let's move away from tribalism for South Africa's sake
AS parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal are racked by violence that is in some measure being mobilised by ethnic considerations, we face a choice: can w...
19 Jul 2021 | Minister of Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande to launch the 2021 State of the Nation
About the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) The HSRC was established in 1968 as South Africa’s statutory research agency and has grown to ...
19 Jul 2021 | Remembering a past scene of looting - what kind of a nation are we becoming?
THE scenes in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, the epicentre of looting and burning of property, took me back 27 years to the beginning of March 1994 &ndash...
19 Jul 2021 | Unrest an attempt to subvert South Africa's democracy: giving in is not an option
The mayhem of the last few days is a reminder of the danger that South Africa continues to live with, as well as an indication of the disfigurement of...