Join Lesley Green for a Seminar on Baboon Management by at Stellenbosch...
Indexing the Human at Stellenbosch University is hosting a seminar by Lesley Green, author of Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and Knowledge. The title of Green’s seminar is...
View ArticleSakhumzi Mfecane: Rampant Individualism is to Blame for Men’s Indifference to...
Sakhumzi Mfecane, a lecturer in Medical Anthropology and Gender at the University of the Western Cape and contributor to Ethical Quandaries: in Social Research, has written an article for Independent...
View ArticleJoin HSRC and CODESRIA for the 2015 World Social Science Forum in Durban...
The Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) are pleased to announce that the World Social Science Forum 2015 (WSSF) will...
View ArticleLucie Cluver Proposes Multi-incentive Approach to Dealing With Girls at Risk...
“Poverty and poor parental support are driving girls into the hands of sugar daddies, which increases their risk of HIV infection.” So writes Zinhle Mapumulo for City Press in a report on the...
View Article“The Fight Against Aids can be Won”– Cyril Ramaphosa Opens the 7th South...
The seventh Annual South African Aids Conference was held in Durban earlier this month. The four day event, held from 9 – 12 June, was a meeting for people to reflect on the progress that South Africa...
View Article“People Were Attacked Because of Where They Were”: Sociologist Simon Bekker...
After the resurgence of xenophobia in South Africa earlier this year Simon Bekker – emeritus professor of Sociology at Stellenbosh University and co-editor of Governing Cities in Africa: Politics and...
View ArticleElectric and Transformative, Frantz Fanon’s Writing Still Resonates in South...
The work of Frantz Fanon is credited as an intellectual cornerstone of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). Richard Pithouse recently wrote an article for Rand Daily Mail about Fanon’s continuing...
View ArticleApply Now for the UCT Graduate School of Business’ Short Course on Power...
The UCT Graduate School of Business invites you to attend the 2015 Managing Power Sector Reform And Regulation short course, presented by Professor Anton Eberhard. The course will take place from...
View ArticleJoin Sylvia Neame, Essop Pahad and Arianna Lissoni at the Launch of The...
HSRC Press and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation would like to invite to the launch of The Congress Movement by Sylvia Neame. The book, which has been published in three volumes, is an analytical...
View ArticleWhy 36 702 Schoolgirls Fell Pregnant in 2011: Exploring the Reasons Behind...
The University of KwaZulu-Natal recently hosted the 10th annual Population Association of Southern Africa conference. Charmel Payet reported for the Sunday Tribune on North-West University Professor...
View ArticleDikgang Moseneke on the Centrality of the Land Question to the Struggle...
Richard Pithouse has written an article for the Rand Daily Mail about the Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Dikgang Moseneke’s stance on the ongoing issues of land reform. Pithouse...
View ArticleChristopher Colvin Interrogates the Effects of Norms and Narratives in...
Christopher Colvin, one of the contributors to Ethical Quandaries: in Social Research edited by Deborah Posel and Fiona C Ross, recently participated in a Indexing the Human panel discussion about...
View ArticleDon’t Miss a CCR Public Dialogue on Tradition, Culture and Gender Equality
The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) Cape Town in collaboration with the Foundation for Human Rights (FHR) Johannesburg invite you to a public dialogue on “The Role of Tradition and Culture: What...
View ArticleVideo: Matthew Parks Explains Why Cosatu Supports the Expropriation Bill
Cosatu’s parliamentary representative Matthew Parks recently joined Waldimar Pelser in the Insig studios to discuss the progressive provisions of the Expropriation Bill, expanding on the statement...
View ArticleThe Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter: The Rise of a...
South African History Online recently published an article about the Freedom Charter and how it worked as a catalyst in consolidating the congress movement in South Africa. The article outlines how...
View ArticleDon’t Miss Adam Haupt’s Lecture on the Tokolos Stencils, Michael Elion and...
Adam Haupt, author of Static: Race and Representation in Post-Apartheid Music, Media and Film and professor of Film and Media Studies at UCT, will be presenting a public lecture at Rhodes University....
View ArticleAngelique Wildschut, Tamlynne Meyer and Salim Akoojee Report on Artisans and...
The Human Sciences Research Council recently shared a policy brief by Angelique Wildschut, Tamlynne Meyer and Salim Akoojee regarding changes to the identity and status of artisans in South Africa. In...
View ArticleUnpacking Community Politics and Rethinking Spaces of Participation: Claire...
HSRC Press is proud to present Popular Politics in SA Cities: Unpacking Community Participation edited by Claire Benit-Gbaffou: Community meetings seldom lead to significant change in urban policies,...
View ArticleBRICS is the Basis for a New World Order of Peace and Security, and it All...
Salim Akoojee, one of the authors of Changing Artisanal Identity and Status: The Unfolding South African Story, has written an article with Joost Monks for NORRAG about developments in the global...
View ArticleZwelinzima Vavi Addresses the First Demawusa Congress, a Splinter of the...
Yesterday was the launch of the Democratic Municipal and Allied Workers of SA (Demawusa), a union that splintered off from SA Municipal Workers Union (Samwu), which is aligned with Cosatu. Zwelinzima...
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