HSRC In The News
28 Mar 2016 | Upgrade backyard shacks and help solve housing crisis, says urbanisation expert
Migration of people into our cities is a growing and ongoing phenomenon.Professor Ivan Turok, Executive Director, Economic Performance and Development...
23 Mar 2016 | SA survey to take closer look at TB
For years, South Africa has relied on estimates provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on how many people were at risk of contracting TB and ...
15 Mar 2016 | IkamvaYouth: Successful students shepherd the next generation
The Nazeema Isaacs library, on the eastern side of Khayelitsha, buzzes in the afternoons. It is then that pupils from four high schools in Makhaza &nd...
15 Mar 2016 | SAICA's Student Support programme keeps UCT's African accounting students in the CA pipeline
Only 15% of South Africa’s university students graduate. This is put South Africa’s graduation rates among the lowest in the world, reveal...
2 Feb 2016 | Disability and Social Change: Brownies and Downies meets Cape Town's special needs
In Cape Town, new coffee shops and restaurants open (or close) every week, so it’s easy to brush off the announcement of another one as insignif...
1 Feb 2016 | 13.8m 'go hungry every day'
A staggering 9 million tons of food is thrown away each year, while more than 13 million South Africans are living without the security of regular mea...
1 Feb 2016 | How to protect kids against obesity
According to an article published last week in the Medical Brief Newsletter (2016A), the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity (ECHO) of the World He...
31 Jan 2016 | This is what the typical diet looks like in South Africa
South Africa faces a war on nutrition on two fronts: the high rates of obesity, and a battle against nutritional deficiency.A study conducted by the H...
24 Jan 2016 | A belief system - 'I am better'
Racism is the seed of superiority planted in the mind to make others feel inferior on the basis of skin colour, panellists said yesterday at a briefin...
19 Jan 2016 | More China-SA 'in-depth' co-operation ahead
Future economic ties between South Africa and China will be based on even more in-depth co-operation, according to Gu Hailiang, deputy chair of the St...