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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: POLITICS
2020 Ahmed Kathrada: a life committed to the struggle
Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada, who was known as Kathy, is one of those singular individuals whose entire life was given to the liberation struggle,...
2020 A.P. Mda: the Africanist giant
Ashby Solomzi Peter 'A.P.' Mda is widely considered to be the organic intellectual and 'founding spirit' behind the Africanist tradition tha...
2020 Robert Sobukwe: founding president
The founding president of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, was the leading architect of the anti-pass ...
2020 Cissie Gool: the Joan of Arc of district six
Civil rights leader and anti-apartheid activist Zainunnisa "Cissie" Gool grew up in District Six. She was the younger of two daughters of Dr...