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18 May 2021 | The ANC's 'family feud' will have a lasting impact on SA’s political landscape - here's what could happen next
The ANC effectively saturated South Africa and everything it stood for with its members and/or loyalists. Then the unthinkable happened — a fami...
18 May 2021 | Traditional leadership in the era of multi-party democracy: A focus on South Africa
The aim of this paper is to discuss this tension arising from traditional leadership in a constitutional democracy. Its key argument is that recognisi...
13 May 2021 | National COVID-19 Antibody Survey (NCAS) requires 19000 participants nationwide
Pretoria, 12 May 2021 – The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), together with research partners, Epicentre, the National Institute for Commu...
13 May 2021 | Vaccine trust, hesitancy and SA's third wave
SA has the highest number of Covid-19 cases in Africa. It has more than 50,000 reported deaths. This may be an underestimate, looking at excess death ...
10 May 2021 | Academentia: Our universities are being strangled by managerial bureaucracy - we must return to the academy
My vision for the university is where faculties again become self-governing and self-propelled, where quality is valued over quantity, and where stude...
7 May 2021 | ANALYSIS | Ubuntu, Covid-19 and human rights sacrifice in South Africa
Narnia Bohler-Muller and Benjamin Roberts Public health emergencies place immense power in the hands of executive leadership. Ths can pose a ri...
7 May 2021 | BDS: South Africa must support the ending of Israeli apartheid and colonisation
In 2009, the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa (HSRC) released a 300-page study showing that Israel is practicing colonialism and aparth...
7 May 2021 | Pasha 106: COVID-19 is increasing inequality in South Africa
Unemployment, poverty and hunger were issues South Africa knew all too well even before the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has made them worse. Job l...
7 May 2021 | South Africa's daunting COVID-19 vaccine rollout
IN May, South Africa begins its mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign, aimed at reaching 40 million people – the minimum to reach herd immunity &nd...
7 May 2021 | Tips for women bearing the brunt of lockdown effects
“During lockdown, women’s responsibilities as primary caretakers in the home increased over and above existing work commitments with addit...