Date : 22 February 2010 Time : Presenter : 11:15 – 13:30 Prof. Sandra Harding You are cordially invited to the seminar series lecture, presented by Professor Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles. These two fields should be allies, since so many of…
Date : 23 February 2010 Time : 12:15 – 14:00 Presenters : Dr Mark Orkin The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has the honour to cordially invite you to this public lecture to be presented by Dr Mark Orkin. Abstract of the lecture: The notion of “measuring the progress of…
Date : 09 March 2010 Time : 12:30 – 13:30 Presenters : S’bonisile Zama You are cordially invited to attend this seminar in the 2010 HSRC Seminar Series. In 2006 the World Bank commissioned the HSRC to do a Consultative Community Report Card Survey (CCRCS) in two municipalities…
Date : 16 March 2010 Time : 12:15 – 13:30 Presenter : Dr Udesh Pillay, Executive Director, Centre for Service Delivery The FIFA World Cup is the world’s largest sporting and media event and an extraordinarily profitable event for FIFA through the sale of television…
Date : 19 March 2010 Time : 13:00 – 14:00 The first commercial mobile call was placed on October 13, 1983. What has started as a simple voice call has transformed into a cultural phenomena of instant communication and broader and equal access to the world at our fingertips. From the…
Date : 24 March 2010 Time : 12:30 – 13:30 Presenters : Prof Haroon Bhorat and Ms Natasha Mayet, University of Cape Town The recently published Student Retention and Graduate Destination: Higher Education and Labour Market Access and Success (HSRC Press, 2009) arises out of an erstwhile HRD…
Date : 26 March 2010 Time : 12:45 – 14:00 Presenter : Dr Cily Tabane The purpose of this seminar is to promote dialogue regarding cultural practices such as polygamy in preventing the spread of HIV. The discussion is informed by the results of a study conducted in Botswana titled:…
Date : 18 May 2010 Time : 12:45 – 14:00 Presenters : Dr Catherine Ndinda Since 2008, South Africa has experienced a growing number of service delivery protests most of which revolve around the lack of adequate housing and the accompanying infrastructural facilities, such as water and…
Date: 26 May 2010 Time : 12:15 – 13:30 Presenter : Dr Gregory Houston This presentation is a work in progress overview of a chapter being prepared for the forthcoming sixth Volume of the South African Democracy Education Trust (SADET’s) Road to Democracy in South Africa…
Date : 02 June 2010 Time : 12:15 – 13:30 Presenters : Dr Ogochukwu Iruoma Nzewi At the 2009 Speakers Conference organised by the Pan African Parliament (PAP), the Parliament indicated that it aims to acquire legislative competency in some regional policy areas by 2011. This paper…
