The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) was awarded the contract to conduct a tracer study of the career movements of 170 of the SARAO postgraduate and post-doctoral alumni and to investigate the impact of the SARAO human capacity development programme. This first part of the study involved tracing the identified, the current activity of the alumnus (including employed/studying, job title/program of study, organisation, location of organisation) and the alumnus' contact information (email address, telephone number and/or social media handle).