24 Apr 2012
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HSRC researcher awarded prestigious grant
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Allanise Cloete of the HIV/AIDS, STId and TB research unit at the HSRC has been awarded a prestigious grant for her doctoral research titled “The invention of ‘moffie’ life in Cape Town, South Africa”.
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17 Apr 2012
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Call for applications: 2012/13 fellowship programme
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MAC AIDS Fund Leadership in HIV Prevention: A Collaborative leadership programme with the Joint Gender Fund (MAFLIHP) is a fellowship programme run in partnership between the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
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08 Mar 2012
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Govt spending better than fixed invest: academic
MSN News
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Simulations by academics from the Canadian university of Laval presented at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) on Wednesday showed that government consumption spending would have a larger positive impact on SA employment than government fixed investment.
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08 Mar 2012
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Private sector obstructed plans for NHI scheme - claim
Sowetanlive
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THE chief executive of the SA Human Sciences Research Council, Dr Olive Shisana, has accused the private sector of having discouraged the government for many years from implementing a national health insurance scheme.
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08 Mar 2012
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Government spending 'better than fixed investment'
BusinessLive
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Simulations by academics from the Canadian university of Laval presented at the Human Sciences Research Council on Wednesday showed that government consumption spending would have a larger positive impact on SA employment than government fixed investment.
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07 Mar 2012
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The Economics of Job Creation Interventions in South Africa
HSRC Seminar
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At the centre of government strategy to address various dimensions of poverty in the South African context is the creation of economic opportunities. The 2010 budget allocated an additional R3.7 billion to nationally drive of employment creation initiatives. It is widely felt that different patterns of expenditure within the budget have different consequences for employment creation and that government should use the budget as a tool to tackle unemployment. The focus of this paper is mainly on quantifying and assessing trends in the incidence of major employment spending programmes by the government.
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05 Mar 2012
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DGSD joins exciting knowledge exchange programme
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The HSRC is part of an exciting knowledge exchange programme with Latin America funded by DFID. The initiative is called Evidence and Lessons from Latin America (ELLA), a knowledge sharing, learning and networking platform on selected economic, environmental and governance issues.
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05 Mar 2012
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Building a national democratic society and the balance of forces in 2012
Polticsweb
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A discussion document towards the National Policy Conference, Version 6.0 as amended by the Special NEC 27 February 2012
TOWARDS A WATERSHED CONFERENCE
1. The 53rd ANC National Conference in 2012 will be required, like all national conferences, to review progress with regards to our strategic objectives, review our policies, assess the state of our organisation, and elect the national leadership. During its hundred-year existence the ANC has held fifty-two such national conferences. Each addressed the above issues, but a few among them stand out as watershed conferences - because of the nature of decisions taken, their signalling of major strategic and organisational shifts and in the process taking the struggle to higher levels. The founding conference of 1912, the 1949 conference that adopted the Programme of Action, and the 1969 Morogoro consultative conference come to mind. What makes for a watershed conference is usually determined in hindsight, by future generations looking back at particular events and how they impacted on subsequent developments in the country.
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05 Mar 2012
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Man up and start making a difference
Mercury
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According to recent surveys, women seem to do the lion's share of volunteer work and they take care of the children OVER the years it has become quite fashionable to male bash. We blokes have become the brunt of many a barbed joke, usually to do with ...
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03 Mar 2012
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Voorstel: Kodesa vir grond
Rapport
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Kenners, akademici, navorsers, regeringsamptenare, regslui en landbou-organisasies het Dinsdag in Kaapstad ure lank met die grondhervormingskwessie geworstel, maar selfs húlle kon nie eenstemmigheid bereik nie.
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02 Mar 2012
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The many voices of South Africa's past
Mail and Guardian online
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In the 1970s the great Belgian literary historian Albert Gérard called for a multilingual -- that is to say, properly national -- literary history of South Africa. The fact that we did not have one, he said acerbically, reflected the effects of apartheid on the country's intellectual life.
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02 Mar 2012
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A different story: narratives for change
Journ-AIDS
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Despite steady media coverage of HIV-related issues, it appears the message has not quite hit home. Particularly, middle-to-upper class South Africans still feel largely unaffected by HIV – if The Times report on their reluctance to partake in the HSRC’s latest HIV survey is anything to go by.
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01 Mar 2012
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Economy: A nation in denial
leader.co.za
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South Africa dreams of being a winning nation even as it wallows in mediocrity. Claire Bisseker confronts the lies SA tells itself about the economy.
SA’s recovery is becoming more and more fragile. A toxic mix of rising domestic inflation and slower global growth is suppressing the outlook for the economy. Growth is now expected to slow to about 2,8% this year - too little to dent high unemployment.
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01 Mar 2012
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Are graduates ready for the workplace?
destinyman.com
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The gap between tertiary education graduates and their readiness for the workplace is a global debate. We investigate.
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01 Mar 2012
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South Africa: HSRC Healthy Survey Gets Underway
allafrica.com
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South Africa: HSRC Healthy Survey Gets Underway AllAfrica.com But HSRC executive director, Professor Leickness Simbayi, says they are flexible with time and are willing to visit each household up to four times to ...
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01 Mar 2012
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Unleashing the Economic Potential of African Cities
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Professor Ivan Turok of EPD organised an expert group meeting on ‘Unleashing the Economic Potential of African Cities’ sponsored by UN-Habitat on 23-24 February. A total of 20 international and local participants discussed the opportunities and challenges facing African urban economies in the context of buoyant global demand for Africa’s natural resources and rapid urbanisation.
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01 Mar 2012
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The centrality of the language question in the social sciences and humanities in post-apartheid SA
LitNet
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I consider the invitation to deliver the inaugural lecture in the EB van Wyk Honorary Lecture series to be a great honour bestowed on me by the University of Johannesburg, especially since this series is intended “to contribute in a linguistically responsible way to the debate on language matters in these times of social transformation”.
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16 Feb 2012
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Good community response to health survey
City Vision
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With a fourth South African National HIV, Behaviour and Health Survey in progress, Dr Olive Shisana together with her staff, visited a number of households in several townships on Friday. The aim of the visit was to collect blood ...
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16 Feb 2012
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Summit to depict future of healthcare in Africa
http://www.bizcommunity.com
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New research predicting the future of African healthcare in 2022 is set to be launched at the Economist Conferences' Healthcare in Africa summit in Cape Town, South Africa on 6-7 March 2012.
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15 Feb 2012
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Minister Bathabile Dlamini: Social Protection and Community Development Ministerial Cluster briefing, Parliament, Cape Town
Info.gov and parliamentary briefing
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Despite the proven effectiveness of social grants in protecting the poor against abject poverty, especially at the recent peak of the global financial crisis, perceptions abound that the child support grant leads to teenage pregnancies and that young mothers abuse the grant. The Human Sciences Research Council study had debunked these myths.
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14 Feb 2012
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HIV rate way down thanks to condoms
MSN News
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The rate at which South Africans contracted HIV fell by 30% between 2000 and 2008, mostly due to increased condom use, according to a new study published in the Royal Society journal Interface last month.
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14 Feb 2012
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Rise in condom usage sees drop in HIV
PE Herald
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THE rate at which South Africans contracted HIV declined by 30% between 2000 and 2008, mostly due to increased condom usage, according to a new study conducted by University of Cape Town academics.
The study, authored by an actuarial scientist, epidemiologist, member of the Human Sciences Research Council and the department of infectious disease epidemiology at London’s Imperial College, was published in the Journal of The Royal Society, Interface, last month.
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14 Feb 2012
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Condoms help cut rate of HIV infection — study
Daily Dispatch and TimesLive
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THE rate at which South Africans contracted HIV declined by 30% between 2000 and 2008, mostly due to increased condom usage, according to a new study conducted by UCT academics. The study, authored by an actuarial scientist, an epi ...
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08 Feb 2012
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Men, dogs, violence and fear
Mail&Guardian
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The People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) is a public hospital in Bridgetown in the Western Cape that provides services to sick animals. There are always queues at the PDSA; the staff are over-worked and the hospital is under-resourced. Most animal guardians who cannot afford private vet fees visit the PDSA or the SPCA in Grassy Park, and this, of course, is the majority of animal guardians in the Western Cape.
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05 Feb 2012
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Ambiguity of the Traditional Courts Bill
City Press
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The South African government’s continuous efforts to reconcile the irreconcilable demands of traditional leaders and opponents to traditional institutions of governance lead to ambiguity, confusion and contestations in those communities which both factions claim to be representing.
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30 Jan 2012
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First nutrition and health survey starts
Business Day
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LIFESTYLE I The Human Sciences Research Council on Friday launched SA's first health and nutrition examination survey to investigate the health of SA's population. The survey — consisting of interviews and clinical exams — will evaluate people's heal ...
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23 Jan 2012
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Obituary: Roger Jowell: Social scientist
Sunday Times
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Obituary: Roger Jowell: Social scientist Chris Barron | 2012-01-22 00:15:23.0 ÉMIGRÉ: Roger Jowell fought apartheid from the UK. The British know more about themselves thanks to the pioneering work of former South African anti-apart ...
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