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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: INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES
2018 Youth theory in South Africa: an indigenous African perspective derived from Sepedi idioms and proverbs
While there is general underdevelopment of social theory within African scholarship, where the latter tends to rely heavily on borrowing fr...
2015 Community support: the missing link in indigenous language promotion in South Africa?
Literature on the challenges facing indigenous languages in South Africa often highlights the proverbial policy-practice gap among many othe...
2012 Reclaiming indigenous languages for posterity
Two pieces of legislation and one policy framework inform the language policy in South Africa: Constitution of South Africa (1996); SA Langu...
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