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8 Sep 2020 | Covid-19: Economic density is the problem - Prof Turok on OFM

The number of people infected by the coronavirus is linked to the density of urban living. South Africa’s townships and informal settlements are...

7 Sep 2020 | Book shines light on Dennis Brutus, one of South Africa's most underrated poets

Fortunately for the rest of us South Africans, the apartheid police state often shot itself in the foot. On the one hand, after a horrifying expos&eac...

7 Sep 2020 | Prof Priscilla Reddy on Newsroom Africa

Findings of a National survey on the impact of Covid-19 on South African Health Workers To listen to the interview click on the link below:...

4 Sep 2020 | SAFM podcast with Professor Turok and Mark Misselhorn

Please find below the link to the SAFM podcast with Professor Turok and Mark Misselhorn on 2 September 2020. ...

3 Sep 2020 | Women integral to FoodForward SA's approach to food security and distribution

Women account for two-thirds of the total job losses in South Africa, between February and April this year. According to the Coronavirus Rapid Mobile ...

3 Sep 2020 | Archie Mafeje Memorial Lecture to focus on Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa

About Archie Mafeje Memorial LectureThis Lecture commemorates the academic and intellectual contribution of the late Professor Archibald Monwabisi Maf...

31 Aug 2020 | Civil society watch, 31 August - 4 September

As Monday, 31 August, marks the last day of Women’s Month, the Gender Justice and Human Development programme (Durban University of Technology) ...

31 Aug 2020 | FoodForward SA highlights integral role of women in food security, distribution

What makes this even more worrying is that in 2019, research conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and the South African Race Relati...

28 Aug 2020 | New COVID-19 model underscores impact of interventions on epidemic trajectory

A new, systems dynamics model joins the cohort of COVID-19 models seeking to provide insights into the epidemic in South Africa. Used to capture the 1...