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3 Jun 2022 | Conceptualisation Of Research Platform To Help Address Africa's Socio-Economic Challenges
The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, has welcomed the idea of an African Continental Research Foundation (ACRF...
3 Jun 2022 | Covid crisis could be the catalyst for a return to rural revolt in South Africa
The Covid-19 pandemic has created a biomedical crisis with far-reaching cultural, political and economic implications in rural areas. As in the 1950s,...
1 Jun 2022 | The time may be ripe to imagine a new African dawn
On 25 May, Rhodes University joined the rest of the continent in the commemoration of Africa Day. The University’s Institute for Social and Econ...
31 May 2022 | Survey finds Covid-19 vaccine side effects main driver of hesitancy in SA
Only half of South Africa’s 40 million adults have received a Covid-19 vaccine, and according to a survey, vaccine general effectiveness and sid...
30 May 2022 | Covid-19: Vaccine hesitancy on the decline; Gauteng reaches 10 million vaccine target
This week in Covid-19 related news, a survey has shown that there was a slight decline in hesitancy among people to get vaccinated, while Gauteng has ...
30 May 2022 | SA records 3 274 new COVID-19 cases
South Africa has recorded 3 274 new COVID-19 cases, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 3 948 119. This increase repre...
25 May 2022 | Stellenbosch University incident 'akin to urinating on Constitution itself'' |Lamola
Justice and Constitutional Development Minister, Ronald Lamola has strongly condemned the racist incident between two students at Stellenbosch Univers...
11 May 2022 | Centre for Community Based Research clinic launch
The Centre for Community Based Research (CCBR) launched the Ikusas’elihle Clinic Facility on 20 April 2022. KwaMpumuza Traditional Council&rsquo...
21 Apr 2022 | The sixth South African HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour and Communication Survey (SABSSM VI) launched in Limpopo
About the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) The HSRC was established in 1968 as South Africa’s statutory research agency and has grown to ...