This policy brief provides an overview of the findings of a national survey on attitudes, preferences and behaviour related to family life in South Africa.

The fear of crime has a negative impact on quality of life at the individual, community and societal levels. This phenomenon, which tends to rely on racial stereotypes, has the effect of reducing the sense of trust and ...

his policy brief emerges from the report, Approaches and Methods for Understanding Scarce Skills Occupations in South Africa (Powell, Reddy & Paterson, 2014)1 and proposes a methodology for estimating scarce skills ...

As migration trends escalate and child migrations patterns rise, G20 countries need to rethink policy frameworks and ensure that they facilitate ease of access to education for migrant children. Policies around regularization ...

The majority of underweight and overweight South Africans seem to be unaware that they are in danger, in the longer term, of ill health. They tend to misperceive their body size and they lack an understanding of the term ...

To promote digital transformation, equal emphasis needs to be allocated to digital skills development as is to infrastructure development. To ensure digital training programmes are adequately managed, a standardized data ...

The 2015 budget speech by the South African Minister of Finance echoed the need to resolve the country's energy challenge and revitalise agriculture as the top two strategic priorities for economic growth and development. ...

This brief includes policy recommendations aimed at informing the inclusion of play as a substantive component of the curriculum at both ECD and basic education level, given its value in enhancing children???s learning e ...

This policy brief shares findings from a recently completed Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services SETA (Merseta) study that has investigated artisanal skilling and ...

This policy brief presents research findings to inform the policy debate around public funding of CAOs in South Africa. It draws from a large study conducted in mid-2014 by the HSRC, which included field visits, staff focus ...