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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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2021 Separation of powers and the dangers of judicial underreach

This chapter takes a closer look at the institutionalisation of the doctrine of separation of powers within the context of South Africa's co...

2020 Transparency: new trajectories in law

This book critiques the contemporary recourse to transparency in law and policy. This is, ostensibly, the information age. At the heart of t...

2020 Albie Sachs: a constitutional revolutionary

Albert 'Albie' Louis Sachs is best known as a former justice of the first bench of the Constitutional Court; he is also an activist, writer,...

2020 Yvonne Makgoro : a woman of substance

Appointed in 1994 as a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa, now retired, Justice Yvonne Mokgoro was not only t...