Media briefs

National results

• HSRC survey predicts two-thirds election majority for ANC
• HSRC survey highlights interesting aspects of voter preferences
• Full slide presentation

Provincial results

• Western Cape
  • Full slide presentation
• Eastern Cape
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• Northern Cape
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• Mpumalanga
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• Limpopo
  • Full slide presentation
• Free State
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• Gauteng
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• KwaZulu-Natal
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• North West
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The ANC will have the support of 70,9% of the voters in Gauteng province in next year’s provincial election, according to the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).

The ANC will have the support of 86,7% of the voters in North West province in next year’s provincial election, according to the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).

The ANC will have the support of 46,6% of the voters in KwaZulu-Natal province in next year’s provincial election, according to the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).

The ANC will have the support of 63% of the voters in Northern Cape province in next year’s provincial election, according to the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).

The ANC will have the support of 81,6% of the voters in Free State in next year’s provincial election, according to the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).

Professor Adam Habib will be joining the Democracy and Governance Research Programme of the HSRC.

The HSRC will implement a comprehensive HIV/AIDS management programme for empoyees and their family members in January 2004.

The ANC will have the support of 93,3% of the voters in Limpopo in next year’s provincial election, according to the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).

The ANC will have the support of 78,2% of the voters in Mpumalanga in next year’s provincial election, according to the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).

The ANC will have the support of 84,2% of the voters in the Eastern Cape province in next year’s provincial election, according to the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).

Cape Town – The NNP will have the support of 40% of the voters in the Western Cape province in next year’s provincial election, according to the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).

The HSRC's earnings from research contracts and grants have increased ten-fold over the last three financial years until March 2003.

In the 2002/03 financial year, the HSRC's ten research programmes ran some 200 research projects, 50% more than in the previous financial year.

Race still plays a major role in voter decisions, women dominate the support for some parties, the balance of party allegiance changes as voters get older, and support for opposition parties is lowest in South Africa’s rural areas.

An extensive nation-wide survey conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), called the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), has predicted that the ANC will secure just over a two-thirds majority in next year’s parliamentary election.

A new study on the healthcare expenditure of six Southern African countries has found that for the exception of South Africa and Zimbabwe, promises of government expenditure ono healthcare are not being met.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa is projected to have peaked in 2002 and new projections show that it is now beginning to level off.

The overall FET system does not do enough at present to help colleges in their transformation efforts

There are immense difficulties involved in the training unemployed youth for the very small and micro enterprises (VSMEs).

State of the Nation: South Africa 2003-2004, a new HSRC publication, gives an extraordinary grasp of present day South Africa.

University graduates have a distinct advantage in South Africa’s competitive labour market, however Africans, women and those who studied at historically black universities still have the greatest difficulty finding employment.

Take note: More than half of all domestic tourism in South Africa is to visit friends and family.

Research commanded by Water Affairs and Forestry Minister Ronnie Kasrils shows that more than half are not working according to standards.

More than 50% of the water delivery schemes to the poor in KwaZulu-Natal are ‘problematic’.

The HSRC is planning to conduct further research to clarify the extent and the causes of basic water supply cut-offs to poor communities.

A study proposes to investigate findings that 5.6% of young children in South Africa are HIV-positive.

Leaders from South Africa, Israel and Palestine will be sharing their experiences at a special conference on 4-6 May in Hermanus.

The executive director of the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac), Phillip Dexter, will be taking up a new position at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), it was announced today (Friday 11 April 2003).

The government's struggling culture and community programme have received a welcome boost with the signing of a bi-national agreement between the South African and Flemish governments to revitalise community art centres.

Many low-income households in South Africa are highly dependent for their survival on government grants, of which the old-age grant and the child support grants are the most important. Because so much of poor households' total expenditure is on food ? according to a Stats SA from 1997, the poorest households spend more than half of their money on food ?this essentially means that a large fraction of government grants goes directly to the food purchases of poor households. In some cases this has perverse effects.

It is with regret that I learnt of the sudden death of Dr Johan Garbers, a predecessor and former President of the HSRC from 1979 to 1987. He was a brilliant academic and education specialist and a warm and popular colleague.
Dr Mark Orkin