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14 Mar 2019 | Youth development in Africa to take the centre stage at the 2019 AYGS Conference

Emerging scholars from different parts of Africa will meet in South Africa for the 13th annual Africa Young Graduates and Scholars (AYGS) conference t...

11 Mar 2019 | The "pain of inequality": how the psychological and the economic intersect to maintain the most unequal society in the world

“At the heart of the explanation [for the persistence of poverty and inequality in South Africa] is the relationship between structural reality ...

8 Feb 2019 | PE office enters #WRADChallenge2019

HSRC staff members in Port Elizabeth took time to participate in the NGO Nal’ibali’s #WRADChallenge2019 by reading aloud the set story &ld...

8 Feb 2019 | Researchers attend governance of data sharing workshop

On 4-5 February 2019, Zaynab Essack (HSD) and Rachel Adams (RIA) attended the Governance of Data Sharing for Genomic and Other Health Related Data in ...

8 Feb 2019 | Sustainable cities researchers visit Kigali, Rwanda

Professor Ivan Turok and Dr Andreas Scheba of the HSRC's Economic Performance and Development research programme(EPD) spent a week in Rwanda recently ...

7 Feb 2019 | University World News Africa Special Report acknowledges work being done by EPD

University World News Africa Special Report acknowledges work being done by EPD Professor Bank is also leading a project in Buffalo City, in the East...

Special Issue: Building Africa through Arts, Culture and Heritag This planned Special Issue of Africa Insight builds on the theme chosen by the Afric...

COVID vaccine rollout speeds up

Eighty-thousand healthcare workers are set to be vaccinated within two weeks of the first batch of Johnson&Johnson vaccines touching down in the c...

Academics condemn 'silencing' of SA scientists over Russian invasion

Although the department said neither it nor its entities was going to comment on the matter, the decision aligns with the position of the South Africa...