Office of the CEO
26 Jul 2019 | The Stellenbosch launch of Poverty & Inequality: Diagnosis, Prognosis, Responses
Responding to poverty and inequality in South Africa requires more than focussing on the structural aspects of the economy. The humiliation that gener...
24 Jul 2019 | Launch of 'The Cape Radicals': Remembering South Africa's early thinkers who saw through racial ideology
Deep in the heart of late 1930’s Cape Town, a theory of anti-racialism began to emerge from a group of young thinkers who called themselves the ...
15 Jul 2019 | Book launch: THE CAPE RADICALS Intellectual and political thought of the New Era Fellowship, 1930s-1960s
Crain Soudien and literary scholar Shaun Viljoen (author of a biography of Richard Rive) discuss the influential role of the New Era Fellowship (NEF) ...
25 Mar 2019 | Passing the baton: Mandela's legacy and today's student protests
A short way up the road from where a conference was taking place about the making of Mandela, opposite a war memorial, an art museum containing tradit...
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 ...
21 Nov 2018 | Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis visits the HSRC
Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis visits the HSRC to meet with members of the executive leadership....
6 Sep 2018 | Prof Michael Chapman receives 2018 HSRC Medal in Social Sciences and Humanities
The 3rd Annual Medal in the Social Sciences and Humanities was bestowed upon Professor Michael Chapman of the Durban University of Technology (DUT) at...
5 May 2016 | Call to nominate outstanding young scientists to young academy
The South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) is accepting nominations for New Members....
27 May 2015 | HSRC appoints new CEO
" The Board of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Crain A. Soudien as the new Chief Execu...