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Allocating farmland to rural women - new insights
Land reform in South Africa intends to redress racial imbalances with regard to ownership and access to land. On the surface, the various strategy documents also talk to transferring land to black women, the youth and the disabled. Tim Hart, Margaret Chandia and Peter Jacobs reason that some interesting patterns are emerging with respect to gender relations and land ownership driven by land reform.
Reforming party finance in SA: exploring the options
Money plays a fundamental role in a democracy. Political parties need to reach their constituencies and inform them of their policies. Not disclosing private donations can lead to corruption, cronyism and policy capture, but would disclosing donations necessarily increase public trust? Collette Schulz-Herzenberg and Gary Pienaar pick up on this crucial debate.
Calling all social scientists, join global biodiversity assessment
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) seeks nominations of social scientists to participate in a global assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services, following the decision by the Fourth IPBES Plenary to initiate such an assessment.
Dr Peter Jacobs rated by the NRF
Dr Peter Jacobs of the Economic Performance and Development Research Programme (EPD), has received a C1 rating from the National Research Foundation (NRF).
Analysing HIV hot spots to better target interventions
The relationship between HIV and associated behaviour, and population traits that drive the epidemic, vary from district to district in South Africa. Looking at the eight metros, the City of Tshwane had the lowest HIV prevalence while Ekurhuleni had the highest. The city of Cape Town and Nelson Mandela also had lower HIV occurrences.
BRICS Research Centre think tank for SA's contribution to T20 meeting
“The HSRC`s BRICS Research Centre (BRC) has become the think tank for South Africa`s contribution to the T20 conference meeting taking place in Berlin on 12/13 May 2016”, says Dr Jaya Josie, the head of the BRC.
Is the schooling system meeting the country's demands for scarce skills?
The matric results provide important information regarding whether the schooling system is able to meet the demands for scarce skills in the country in relation to Science, Engineering, Commerce and Health. Using the National Senior Certificate results from 2011-2015, we analyse the progress made along the education pipeline.
Prof. Bohler-Muller appointed to chair SA research into blue economy
Professor Narnia Bohler-Muller has been appointed as chair of the academic group of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA). IORA is an international organisation consisting of coastal states bordering the Indian Ocean.
Will China's reforms impact Africa's development?
This paper argues that while Africa’s economic growth could be strongly impacted by China’s reform measures, they may be the required push for the continent to diversify and decrease its dependence on natural resources.
Registration on Central Supplier Database (CSD): National Treasury
Supplier database changes and invitation to suppliers to register on central database.
