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Media Release: Technology does not enter an empty society – HSRC CEO calls for humanities to shape digital future, not just explain it

15 September 2026

Kempton Park, Tuesday, 15 September 2026 – The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) Annual Conference 2026 officially opened today, under the theme, The age of digitality and the future of society: Rethinking knowledge, ethics, and the role of the humanities and social sciences. Delivering her opening address, the HSRC CEO, Prof Sarah Mosoetsa, said the… View Article

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Media Advisory – HSRC Annual Conference 2026 to spotlight cutting-edge research on digital transformation

14 September 2026

Ekurhuleni, Monday, 14 September 2026 – The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) invites all…

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The age of digitality and the future of society will take centre stage at the annual HSRC Conference

08 September 2026

Ekurhuleni, Tuesday, 08 September 2026 – Hundreds of social science experts will gather at the…

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Exclusive breastfeeding and early stimulation linked to children’s later success

22 June 2016

HSRC researcher involved in Canadian Government-funded “Saving Brains” research which finds: Babies exclusively breastfed to six months old half as likely to have later conduct disorders; Enriched play/stimulation to age 2 creates…

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Seminar to discuss and analyse escalating number of community protests

To: ALL MediaAttention: News EditorsFor immediate release21 June 2016 Media advisory || Rebellion of the Poor: seminars on community protests || 30 June and 1 July 2016 We would like to invite journalists to attend an extraordinary two-day…

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Criminalising racism in tumultuous times

14 June 2016

The Freedom Charter that underpins our Constitution provides that ‘The preaching and practice of national, race or colour discrimination and contempt shall be a punishable crime…’. The South African government is drafting the…

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Undoing race and racism in our everyday lives

27 May 2016

We recently reported data from the HSRCs South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS) series in which we showed that while there are signs of improving race relations, feelings of inter-racial dislike and mistrust persist at consistently high…

Former SA President to deliver a keynote address at the Africa Day celebration

24 May 2016

His Excellency, Thabo Mbeki, will be the keynote speaker at the 2016 Africa Day Expo tomorrow (Wednesday, 25 May), which will take place at the Ditsong Museum of South Africa in Pretoria. The former South African statesman, who is famous for his…

2016 Africa Day celebration to be held at the Capital City

19 May 2016

Members of the media are invited to attend the 2016 Africa Day Expo to be held in Ditsong Museums of South Africa, Pretoria on 25 May 2016. This year the expo will feature prominent names such as former President Thabo Mbeki, the Queen of African…

Public Health, Society and Belonging

Durban Homelessness Census: 4 000 very different people in the streets and shelters

17 May 2016

Close to 4 000 people live on the street and in formal homeless shelters in the central Durban area, of which approximately 85% are male. A census conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in partnership with and funded by the eThekwini…

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HSRC appoints new M&E research director

The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Edmore Marinda as a research director at the Research and Impact Assessment (RIA) unit effective 1 June 2016. He will head monitoring and evaluation in RIA. Dr…

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The longer walk to freedom: making sense of attitudes towards race relations in South Africa

10 May 2016

There is much unfinished business in post-apartheid South Africa. Over the past year, a series of racist and bigoted outbursts on social media have generated widespread public debate about the state of race relations and social cohesion in the…

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HSRC appoints human rights expert to work on issues of transparency, accountability and constitutionalism

18 April 2016

Mrs Rachel Adams, a senior researcher for Civil and Political Rights at the South African Human Rights Commission, has been appointed as a chief research specialist in the Research use & Impact Assessment (RIA) unit at the Human Sciences Research…

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