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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: PROTEST MOVEMENTS
2017 Minding the protest: attitudes towards different forms of protest action in contemporary South Africa
This article focuses on providing new insights into the nature of public opinion about protest action in South Africa. Since the mid-2000s t...
2017 "We didn't ask for a municipality": unintended consequences of municipal boundary re-determination: Vuwani at a glance
This study investigates the drivers of violence and conflict over the municipal boundaries in Vuwani District, Limpopo Province. It also aim...
Download this report2017 Student power in 21st-century Africa: the character and role of student organising
The purpose of this chapter is to provide a systematic overview of contemporary students politics and the emerging character of systems of s...
2013 How popular protests influence public discourse and public accountability: revisiting the theory of public spheres in South Africa
This article analyses some major sociopolitical trajectories in South African society since the advent of democracy, in the light of the soc...