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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: POST APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
2008 The buoyancy factor: the tenacity of traditional leadership
Traditional leadership is often judged as an anomaly within a democratic system of governance. It lives in tension with the land-reform prog...
2008 Satisfaction with the way democracy is working in post-apartheid South Africa
A constitution, relatively well-run elections and stable elected representative institutions are not sufficient for democratic consolidation...
2008 Case studies of perpetrators of violent crime
The promise offered by South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994 was that, with the end of apartheid, levels of violence in South Af...
Download this report2007 The land question in South Africa: the challenge of transformation and redistribution
The extent to which indigenous people were dispossessed of their land by whites in South Africa under colonial rule and apartheid has no par...