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Research outputs: COVID-19 LOCKDOWN
2020 Disrupted learning during COVID-19: the impact of school closures on education outcomes in South Africa
By mid-April about 1.725 billion students globally had been affected by the closure of schools and higher education institutions in response...
Download this report2020 Anxiety about schools reopening: enhancing the voice of teachers, parents and learners through photovoice
The state of disaster announced on 15 March saw South African schools close more than a week before the country went into a hard lockdown to...
Download this report2020 A qualitative analysis of comments received from the general public in response to gazetted amendments to the Disaster Management Act Regulations: Alert Level 3 (Gazette 43521 of 12 July 2020)
The HSRC was requested to receive, on behalf of government, email responses from the general public to the gazetted amendments to the Disast...
Download this report2020 HSRC series of rapid assessments on socio-behavioural aspects of COVID-19
This was the first survey that was conducted in the first month of the outbreak prior to the announcement of the lockdown. The survey focuse...
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