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The HSRC Research Data Service provides a digital repository facility for the HSRC's research data in support of evidence based human and social development in South Africa and the broader region. Access to data is dependent on ethical requirements for protecting research participants, as well as on legal agreements with the owners, funders or in the case of data owned by the HSRC, the requirements of the depositors of the data. We facilitate data use by preparing comprehensive metadata and disseminating data and related documents to appropriate target audiences. Data sharing is subject to an End User License agreement. Data sets from the following projects have been curated and are available for use:
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Research data: #FEESMUSTFALL
2021 Violences in the South African student movement
This essay draws attention to the complexities of understanding violence as a phenomenon and experience that almost always involves multiple...
2021 #MbokodoLeadUs: the gendered politics of black womxn leading campus-based activism in South Africa's recent university student movements
South Africa has a patriarchal tendency to treat woman as beneficiaries of protest and activism rather than as agents in the construction of...
2021 Tweeting #FeesMustFall: the online life and offline protests of a networked student movement
In 2015, students made history in South Africa. The wave of the so-called hashtag,"MustFall," or Fallist" protests started with RhodesMustFa...
2020 Twitter and student leadership in South Africa: the case of #FeesMustFall
With the rapid proliferation of social media around the world, social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are increasingly bec...