Archived news articles for Centre for Social Science Research can be found below:

July 2020

FaSRU students awarded Distinctions for their theses - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 12:00
Controversy in SA J of Science - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 13:45
feedings schemes and social grants - Mon, 07/06/2020 - 06:00
Three new FaSRU working papers now available - Fri, 07/03/2020 - 09:30
Jeremy Seekings: panel webinar on racism and social cohesion - Fri, 07/03/2020 - 09:15

June 2020

Controversy over the Post Office’s role in social grant payments - Mon, 06/22/2020 - 11:00
Sessions at the annual UK Development Studies conference - Mon, 06/22/2020 - 10:45
Education activists and schools take Department of Basic Education (DBE) and provincial education departments to court - Mon, 06/15/2020 - 09:45
New FaSRU publication: Financing Social Reproduction - Mon, 06/15/2020 - 09:15
ASRU Research on Treatment Access in West Africa presented at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2020) - Wed, 06/10/2020 - 14:00
Feeding poor people: The national government has failed - Wed, 06/03/2020 - 14:30
Rebecca Hodes interviewed by CAPE TALK - Tue, 06/02/2020 - 06:15

May 2020

ASRU submits abstract on pictograms to promote public health in the COVID pandemic, to forthcoming COVID-19/IAS virtual conference - Thu, 05/28/2020 - 10:15
SASSA’s big test: When will the emergency Covid-19 social grant be paid? - Tue, 05/19/2020 - 14:00
FaSRU Director, Elena Moore, publishes an article on ‘Covid-19 emergency child support grants’ in the Daily Maverick - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 10:15
ASRU's Director, Rebecca Hodes, publishes an article on 'Bad medicine: the past and present toxic "cures" in the Daily Maverick - Tue, 05/12/2020 - 05:45
ASRU Pictogram goes to virtual IAS2020 - Tue, 05/05/2020 - 06:15

April 2020

Covid-19 grant: We can learn from Namibia - Thu, 04/30/2020 - 22:30
Covid-19: Ramaphosa’s plan is good, but the budget is insufficient: Seekings - Fri, 04/24/2020 - 05:45
Accelerate Hub: Hosted A seminar with Dr Alude HSRC - Fri, 04/24/2020 - 05:30
FaSRU researchers Nonzuzo Mbokazi and Elena Moore write about CSG grants and informally employed mothers - Thu, 04/23/2020 - 05:45
The Accelerate Hub shares an annual summary of their first year (Feb 2019-Feb 2020). - Wed, 04/22/2020 - 05:30
Power FM Podcast on Old Age Grant Receiving Households and Covid-19 - Tue, 04/21/2020 - 05:30
Covid-19 and the impact on care and money in multi-generational households - Tue, 04/21/2020 - 05:15
COVID-19 Parenting Tips:Billions of children are out of school: here's how to cope - Mon, 04/20/2020 - 05:45
OPINION: Fear and policing in the time of Covid-19 2020-04-03 13:38 - Mon, 04/06/2020 - 10:15

March 2020

New Working Papers on African Politics - Thu, 03/19/2020 - 11:15
CSSR work moves online - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 16:45
We need to act quickly to protect older people in South Africa from Covid-19: Gabrielle Kelly - Wed, 03/18/2020 - 12:30

December 2019

Associate Professor Mzikazi Nduna will be a visiting researcher at the AIDS and Society Research Unit (ASRU) in 2020 - Mon, 12/09/2019 - 17:30

November 2019

UCT ranked First in the World for HIV/AIDS Research - Thu, 11/28/2019 - 10:15
The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa - Mon, 11/18/2019 - 12:15
Inclusive Dualism - Sun, 11/17/2019 - 00:00

October 2019

An exciting set of papers based on research conducted within FaSRU has been published in the journal Critical Social Policy, November 2019. - Tue, 10/01/2019 - 13:15

July 2019

Do joint police-military crackdown operations actually reduce violent crime? - Wed, 07/24/2019 - 09:45
Discussion on: Understanding Polygamous Marriages in South Africa, Elena Moore on radio 702 - Fri, 07/19/2019 - 11:00

June 2019

Siyanai Zhou, first-year doctoral student at Department of Statistics and AIDS and Society Research unit,received an award. - Thu, 06/20/2019 - 10:30
Oxford University Press have just published a new book by Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings. - Tue, 06/04/2019 - 12:30

May 2019

Briefing the Western Cape Premiere on Khayelitsha's rat problems - Mon, 05/27/2019 - 09:30

April 2019

New FaSRU publication - Tue, 04/16/2019 - 10:15

March 2019

Human Rights and Cultural Practices by Elena Moore and Chuma Himonga - Tue, 03/26/2019 - 09:45
New story live: New evidence that UN agencies’ work is effective - Fri, 03/15/2019 - 09:30

February 2019

Social cohesion and collective violence in South Africa - Fri, 02/22/2019 - 10:45
South Africa’s failure to create manufacturing jobs - Tue, 02/19/2019 - 10:30
Ramaphosa’s plans aren’t enough to adequately tackle violent crime in South Africa - Thu, 02/14/2019 - 12:00
Customary wives and the law - Thu, 02/14/2019 - 11:30
Customary Wives in Fight against Marital Abuse - Wed, 02/06/2019 - 11:45
The Families and Societies Research Unit, NRF Chair in Customary Law, Indigenous Values and Human Rights hosted a two-day workshop. - Fri, 02/01/2019 - 09:45

December 2018

Two new ASRU publications - Mon, 12/03/2018 - 15:30

November 2018

Customary law can pose problems for widows - Tue, 11/27/2018 - 15:15