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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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2020 F**k white people: do South Africans really support such slogans?
During student protests at South Africa's universities in 2016, the slogan F**k white people appeared on T-shirts, buildings and monuments. ...
2020 Violencia en las calles sudafricanas como unica respuesta: el movimiento de protesta estudiantil sudafricano "#FeesMustFall" (When the streets hold the only answer: the case of the South African "#FeesMustFall" student movement)
The democratisation of higher education has revealed deeply entrenched inequalities inherent in the system, wherein young people cannot acce...
2019 Tweeting #FeesMustFall: the case of #UCTShutdown
Starting from Spring 2015, students across the country became engaged in the #FeesMustFall campaign, participating in protest action and shu...
2017 #FeesMustFall: an internet-age student movement in South Africa and the case of the university of the Free State
How can we begin to make sense of the diversity of hashtag student movements that sprang up in South Africa in the course of 2015? In this p...