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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 Intersectionality in African research: findings from a systematic literature review
Intersectionality is a term used to describe the ways in which social identities - such as gender, sexuality, age, race, class, and disabili...
Download this report2018 On history and mythmaking in South Africa: the decolonial quest for truth(s) and relevance
In responding to Ngugi wa Thiong'o's decolonial call for 'a quest for relevance', this essay deals with the issue of removal of colonial and...
2018 Challenges with nation-building in Africa: the Heglig oil conflict and crises of identity and belonging in south Sudan
This paper seeks to analyse the challenges associated with building a new nation on the Africa continent and how such challenges could be ov...
2016 The struggle to reform the state of South Africa's education: the post-apartheid experience
The purpose of this chapter is to assess how well the country has managed since the advent of democracy in 1994. The contribution describes...